Jul 13, 2026
The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics at TU Dresden Celebrates Its Inclusion in the PRL Collection of the Year 2025
The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IKTP) at TUD Dresden University of Technology is delighted to have received a special honor: The paper titled “Evidence for Longitudinally Polarized W Bosons” has been included in the prestigious Physical Review Letters (PRL) Collection of the Year 2025. Only seven papers in particle physics from around the world were selected for this honor. The collection recognizes outstanding scientific publications that make a particularly important contribution to the advancement of physics.
The award-winning paper deals with the experimental observation of longitudinally polarized W bosons. These particles play an important role in understanding the electroweak interaction, one of the four fundamental forces of nature. The measurement provides new insights into the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and tests fundamental predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics. The results were obtained as part of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, in which several research groups from the IKTP are involved.
The analysis was primarily carried out by two doctoral students and one master’s student from the IKTP under the supervision of Prof. Frank Siegert. “This recognition is a testament to the interdisciplinary collaboration between theory and experiment in our team and highlights the significance of our research on an international level,” explains Prof. Siegert. “The observation of longitudinally polarized W bosons in vector boson scattering is a milestone in experimental particle physics and highlights the significance of our contributions to the study of the fundamental forces of the universe.”
The IKTP at TU Dresden is renowned for its cutting-edge research in experimental and theoretical particle physics. In addition to investigating the electroweak interaction and searching for new physical phenomena, the Institute is also committed to science communication to make complex topics accessible to a broad public.
Inclusion in the PRL Collection of the Year 2025 not only highlights the international significance of particle physics research at TU Dresden but is also a special honor for the young researchers involved: Erik Bachmann, Mareen Hoppe, and Max Stange. The Institute extends its heartfelt congratulations to all those involved on this success.
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NameProf. Dr. Frank Siegert
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