Marek Schönherr

Roughly a decade after the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), present-day particle physics research is characterized by very good agreement of theory predictions with experimental data from the LHC and previous colliders on the one hand and by the certainty that the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) cannot be the ultimate theory of fundamental subatomic physics on the other. Missing pieces in the big puzzle, for instance, concern the nature of “Dark Matter” observed in the Universe, the mysterious pattern of fundamental matter particles, the unification of all forces at smallest distances, and the explanation of the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. At the high-energy frontier with particle colliders, in particular at the LHC, new discoveries can only be made via highest possible precision in theory predictions, simulations of particles processes, and experimental analyses.
In this project, Prof. Schönherr will work with both the Experimental and Theoretical High-Energy Physics groups of Profs. Jacobs and Schumacher, and Dittmaier and Rhezak, resperctively. Together with the theory groups, the construction of an electroweak parton shower to implement indispensible high-order corrections is planned. Simultaneously, he will discuss and guide the use of his existing software tools by the experimental collaborations for their current and future data analyses.