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HESS Cherenkov Telescope in Namibia.

to the Experimental Astroparticle Physics group at the University of Hamburg. Our focus is on the non-thermal Universe. The celestial accelerators are now observable through the light of GeV-TeV photons - the most energetic photons ever detected. The rich phenomenology of these powerful accelerators becomes evident when combining the multi-wavelength observational data into a unified picture.
Besides investigating relativistic plasma, we are also searching for traces of self-annihilating or decaying dark matter. Gamma-rays and anti-matter are possibly produced by the most abundant and possibly least understood form of matter in the Universe, commonly called Dark Matter. Natural candidates for particle Dark Matter include supersymmetric particles which would be detectable through GeV-TeV gamma-rays.
Our research benefits from funding received from the DFG (SFB 676), BBF Verbundforschung, ASPERA. Our group is contributing to the Local cluster of excellency (LEXI) Connecting Particles with the cosmos.

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