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24th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation
The 24th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP violation takes place from 18th to 22nd of May, 2026 in the Physics Center in Bad Honnef
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More than a lifetime Workshop
The "More than a lifetime" workshop that takes place at the University of Siegen from September 22 - 25, 2025, focuses on the description of the lifetime of heavy hadrons.

Color meets Flavor Constituent Meeting
On July 15, 2025, the constituent meeting of the Color meets Flavor Cluster of Excellence will take place at the TU Dortmund University, bringing together physicists and administrators from the University of Bonn, TU Dortmund, University of Siegen, and Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Color meets Flavor accepted as Cluster of Excellence
On May 22, 2025, the Excellence Commission has accepted Color Meets Flavor as one of 70 Excellence Clusters.
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Podcast on elementary particle physics
In the newest issue of Spark!, the science podcast of the University of Siegen, Prof. Dr. Alexander Lenz is being interviewed on the topic of elementary particle physics. The podcast focuses on the key question which information on the big questions of humanity such as "What are we made of?" and "How did our universe and the matter it contains emerge?" can be extracted from the smallest building blocks of the universe. The focus here lies on the theoretical aspects of particle physics.
The podcast is available in German on all common podcast platforms, as well as on youtube.

ATLAS observes top quarks in lead-lead collisions
The first observation of top-quarks in lead-lead collisions has been achieved by scientist at the ATLAS experiment.
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End of LHCb 2024 proton-proton collision data taking period
On October 16th, 2024, this year's LHC proton run ended, surpassing expectations with 11% more collisions than planned.
The recorded amount of data superseded the previously obtained one from Run 1 and Run 2 together.
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Lohengrin white paper published on arXiv
The LOHENGRIN study group published the white paper.
As part of future experiments at the accelerator ELSA at the university of Bonn, it considers studies in the dark sector.

Newly elected German Committee of Elementary Particle Physics
At the beginning of October, the German Committee of Elementary Particle Physics (KET) was re-elected.
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