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The research of the Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP) group spans diverse aspects of fundamental interactions of Nature and of the elementary constituents of matter. These include studies of perturbative quantum field theory for the strong, electroweak, and Yukawa interactions of quarks and leptons of the Standard Model of particle physics, astroparticle physics, early universe cosmology, the phenomenology of neutrino oscillations, effective field theories, including soft-collinear effective field theory and heavy quark effective field theory, multi-loop integrals and the mathematics of scattering amplitudes and Feynman diagrams, topological and non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theory, string theory and mathematical physics connections to geometry.

Research also extends to model-building and phenomenology for beyond the Standard Model physics, including solutions to the dark matter problem, baryogenesis and leptogenesis, the strong CP problem and its theoretical underpinning, the gauge hierarchy problem, collider physics, flavor physics, Higgs physics, quantum sensors, and connections to atomic and nuclear physics.

Becker, M., Copello, E., Harz, J. et al. (2026).
Sommerfeld Effect and Bound State Formation for Dark Matter Models with Colored Mediators with SE+BSF4DM.
arXiv:2601.03026

Fuyuto, K. Harz, J, Weber, S.
Impact of νSMEFT operators on low-scale leptogenesis.
JHEP 01 (2025) 030.
arXiv:2510.24843

Becker, M., Fernandez Lozano, M., Harz, J. et al. (2025).
Multiple Soft Scatterings in Scalar Dark Matter Freeze-In
hep-ph (MITP-25-046)
arXiv:2506.11185

Bartocci, R. Biekötter, A., Hurth, T. (2024).
Renormalisation group evolution effects on global SMEFT analyses.
arXiv Preprint arXiv:2412.09674

Hurth, T., Khodjamirian, A., Mahmoudi, F., et al. (2025).
Nonlocal form factor of chromomagnetic penguin in B→Kℓ+ℓ− from QCD light-cone sum rules.
Preprint, arXiv:2512.10868

Bartocci, R., Böer, P., Hurth. T. (2025).
NLO analysis of the subleading-power Q1−Q7γQ1​−Q7γ​ interference in Bˉ→XsγBˉ→Xs​γ at large photon energies
arXiv:2510.18811

Jockers, H., Kuusela, P., and Sarve, M. (2025).
Hodge Structures of Complex Multiplication Type from Rational Conformal Field Theories.
arXiv:2510.25708

Jockers, H. (2025).
Non-perturbative corrections to 3d BPS indices and topological strings.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 6.
arXiv:2405.03398

Jockers, H., Kotlewski, S., Kuusela, P., et al. (2025).
A Calabi-Yau-to-curve correspondence for Feynman integrals.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 1.
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2025)030

Julia Gehrlein, Joachim Kopp, Margot MacMahon, George A. Parker
A LENS on DUNE-PRISM: Characterizing a Neutrino Beam with Off-Axis Measurements
arXiv:2510.09546

Joachim Kopp, Zahra Tabrizi, Salvador Urrea
Effective Field Theory in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

arXiv:2509.21537

Nancy Aggarwal, et al.
Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches above 10 kHz
arXiv:2501.11723

Publications of all of J. Kopp’s group members

C. Cornella, M. Ferré, M. König and M. Neubert
The Simplest B Decay, Precisely
 arXiv:2601.14361

T. Becher, P. Hager, S. Jaskiewicz, M. Neubert and D. Schwienbacher
Factorization Restoration through Glauber Gluons
Physical Revier Letters 134, no.6, 061901 (2025) [arXiv:2408.10308]

C. Cornella, A.M. Galda, M. Neubert and D. Wyler
K→pi+a at next-to-leading order in chiral perturbation theory and updated bounds on ALP couplings
JHEP 06, 029 (2024) [arXiv:2308.16903]

Gouttenoire, Y., Trifinopoulosb, S., Vanvlasselaere, M. (2025). Implications for Pulsar Timing Arrays of Sub-solar Black Hole Detections: From LVK to Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer.
arXiv:2508.19328

Gouttenoire, Y., Gerlach, C., . Iovino, A. J., et al. (2025).
Closing the Mass Window for Stupendously Large Black Holes.
arXiv:2508.08238

Gerlach, C., Ratzinger, W., Schwaller, P. (2025).
Generalized neutrino isocurvature.
arXiv:2504.17047

Münzenberg, M., and Tamarit, C. (2025). 
Bubble velocities in local equilibrium from a pseudopotential
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Ai, W.-Y., Garbrecht, B., and Tamarit, C. (2025). 
Reply to “Clearing up the Strong $CP$ problem”
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Ai, W.-Y., Carosi, M., Garbrecht, B., et al. (2025).
Bubble wall dynamics from nonequilibrium quantum field theory. 
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 8. 
DOI 
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S. Pögel, X. Wang and S. Weinzierl, (2023).
Taming Calabi-Yau Feynman Integrals: The Four-Loop Equal-Mass Banana Integral, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, (2023),
arXiv:2211,04292

N. Schwanemann and S. Weinzierl, (2025).
Electroweak double-box integrals for Moller scattering, SciPost Phys. 18, (2025),
arXiv:2412.07522

H. Frellesvig, R. Morales, S. Pögel, S. Weinzierl and M. Wilhelm, (2025).
Calabi-Yau Feynman integrals in gravity: epsilon-factorized form for apparent singularities, JHEP 2502, arXiv:2412.12057

Dong, M., and others. 
CEPC Conceptual Design Report: Volume 2 – Physics & Detector.

Golling, T., and others. 
Physics at a 100 TeV pp collider: beyond the Standard Model phenomena.
DOI

Yu, F. Exotic.

Oberseminar Geometry & Physics : Introduction to Mirror Symmetry

Prof. Dr. Hans Jockers and Prof. Dr. Manfred Lehn
Time: Mondays, 2:15pm–3:45pm — 1st meeting: October 27, 2025
Place: Staudingerweg 9, room 04-432

Vorlesung/Übung: Kosmologie des frühen Universums

Prof. Dr. Pedro Schwaller
Time:   Wednesdays, 14:30 –16:00, Fridays, 10:15 – 11:45
Place: Wednesdays Staudingerweg 7, 05-127 Lorentz-Raum, Fridays Staudingerweg 7, 05-119 Minkowski-Raum

Vorlesung: Theoretische Physik 1 | Theoretische Mechanik

Prof. Dr. Hans Jockers
Time:   Mondays, 10:15 –11:45 ( 1st lecture: October 27, 2025), Fridays, 10:15 – 11:45
Place:  Mondays Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 21, lecture room 421 N6
             Fridays Duesbergweg 10-14, lecture room 311 C 02

Vorlesung/Übung: Theoret. Physik 6a| Relativistische Quantenfeldtheorie

Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl
Time: Tuesdays, 12:15 – 13:45,
Wednesdays, 10:15 – 11:45
Place: both days Staudingerweg 9,
01-128 Galilei-Raum

For general inquiries regarding thesis opportunities or internship opportunities, please contact the respective THEP faculty member directly.

There are openings for postdoctoral positions in the THEP group with a start date in Fall 2026. For more information and to apply, please visit the job opening advertised on AcademicJobsOnline, https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31036 .

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