On May 22, 2025, the Excellence Commission has accepted Color Meets Flavor as one of 70 Excellence Clusters.

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.

The first observation of top-quarks in lead-lead collisions has been achieved by scientist at the ATLAS experiment.

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The recorded amount of data superseded the previously obtained one from Run 1 and Run 2 together.

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.

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

Applications opened for a new professorship for computational theoretical physics at the University of Siegen

Dortmund University welcomes Prof. Dr. Julia Vogel in the physics department.

From September 30 to October 3, 2024, the 3rd edition of the "Lattice meets Continuum" workshop is taking place in the seminar center of the University of Siegen.
The focus is on understanding flavor phenomena by an exchange of Lattice and Continuum communities.

Color met flavor in a delicious fusion of science and taste at the first-ever Dortmund Science Night on September 27th. Members of the Bonn, Siegen, and Dortmund groups handed out ice cream inspired by the laws of particle physics. Each quark was represented by a different ice cream flavor, allowing visitors to enjoy physically allowed combinations of quarks.

More than 500 attendees eagerly lined up to sample the different flavors while learning about particle physics. Among the guests were Ina Brandes, Minister of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Thomas Westphal, Lord Mayor of Dortmund, and Prof. Dr. Manfred Bayer, President of TU Dortmund University. The event was a great success and proved that sparking curiosity about the building blocks of the universe can be as simple and enjoyable as a scoop of ice cream.

The Electron Stretcher Facility in Bonn (ELSA) has launched a new web-presence

The 55th Autumn School of High-Energy-Physics took place at the Physics Center in Bad Honnef from September 3 to 13, 2024.

The LHCb experiment achieved to record more data in 2024 than in the previous data taking phase from 2015-2018.

Researchers from the University of Bonn started the construction of the forward endcap calorimeter (FWEC) of the PANDA-experiment in Jülich.

A new Research Unit considering the mathematical field of fundamentals of Scattering Amplitudes will be funded.