Particle accelerator sheds light on dark matter

Dark matter is essential for understanding the rotation speed of stars in galaxies and the motion of galaxies in clusters. But what exactly is dark matter? This question has occupied researchers for decades. But it is not only observations of galaxies that play a role in answering it. Physicists are also getting to the bottom of it with the help of particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

On this evening, Jonas Würzinger from the Cluster of Excellence ORIGINS will talk about how the ATLAS experiment at CERN searches for different variants of dark matter and how it can be possible at all to measure invisible particles with detectors.