Herts joins pioneering work researching scattering amplitudes
The University of Hertfordshire has received funding to investigate scattering amplitudes, fundamental quantities which describe interactions between elementary particles and are of vital importance for our understanding of the laws of nature.
The international consortium “Modern Foundations of Scattering Amplitudes”, includes Dr Livia Ferro, Associate Professor in Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Herts.
It will investigate various aspects of these amplitudes with the goal of uncovering new fundamental mathematical and physical structures and developing innovative methods for their calculation.
In future, this will enable more precise calculation of scattering processes at particle accelerators and also gravitational waves, which are created when black holes or neutron stars merge.
The research unit has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the research programme will run for four years involving a grant of around four million euros.
Herts is partnered by five leading German institutions (University of Bonn, Humboldt-University Berlin, University of Mainz, Technical University of Munich and Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich).