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© Johannes Werthebach​/​TU Dortmund, NSF, IceCube

„Matter in Terrestrial & Cosmic Laboratories“

© Rieke Siemon​/​TU Dortmund
As part of the Ruhr Innovation Lab on-site visit, researchers from TU Dortmund University and Ruhr University Bochum presented the exhibition „Matter in Terrestrial & Cosmic Laboratories“ at CALEDO. It offered vivid insights into current research in particle, hadron, astroparticle and plasma physics and showed how experiments ranging from particle accelerators and observatories to space-based instruments contribute to our understanding of the nature of matter. At the same time, the exhibition highlighted the special opportunities created by the close collaboration between Dortmund and Bochum: researchers combine expertise from different areas of physics, creating a strong environment for jointly addressing some of the major open questions in physics, from the structure of matter to particles and signals from the cosmos. The exhibition also reflected research activities of the Cluster of Excellence „Color Meets Flavor“ and the RAPP Center.

The exhibits included models and demonstrators related to major international experiments such as LHCb and ATLAS at CERN, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, and the FACT Cherenkov telescope on La Palma. Further stations presented projects such as Pierre Auger, MAGIC, RNO-G and the planned solar axion telescope IAXO. Accelerator experiments such as INSIGHT at the ELSA accelerator in Bonn were also part of the exhibition. Together, the experiments presented spanned a wide range of research, from particle physics at CERN and astroparticle observatories to future instruments for fundamental research.

A special exhibit was a model of the IceCube detector, developed in collaboration with the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, which demonstrated the working principle of the neutrino observatory in an accessible way.

Following the site visit, the exhibition was opened for three additional guided tours for researchers, faculty members, doctoral candidates and students from the participating universities. Participants had the opportunity to learn more about major international experiments and the physics research activities in Dortmund and Bochum connected to them.

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