Location & approach

By Car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

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Location & approach

By Car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

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Dr. Jean-Marco Alameddine successfully finished his PhD

09/03/2024 -

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The image shows a graphical visualization of a particle shower above Dortmund, Germany.

Our chair member Dr. Jean-Marco Alameddine successfully finished his Ph.D.

We would like to congratulate our chair member Dr. Jean-Marco Alameddine on the successful completion of his PhD! The title of his thesis is "Enabling Next-generation Particle Cascade Simulations: Implementing the Propagation Software PROPOSAL as an Interaction Model for CORSIKA 8".

When high-energy atomic nuclei and photons from space as primary particles collide with the Earth's atmosphere, they initiate particle showers. Many secondary particles are produced in these showers. By detecting the secondary particles, it is possible to reconstruct the energy, direction of origin, and particle type of the primary particle. The CORSIKA 8 software is used to simulate these particle showers.

However, current simulations have the problem that the simulated particle showers consistently lack a certain proportion of muons compared to experimental observations of real particle showers. This phenomenon is known as the muon puzzle. To address this problem, Dr. Jean-Marco Alameddine worked on the simulation program PROPOSAL, which serves as the electromagnetic and muonic interaction model within CORSIKA 8. It describes the muonic interactions very precisely, so the systematic uncertainty was reduced and the number of muons in the simulations increased. Nevertheless, a muon deficit remained. This indicates that inaccuracies alone are not sufficient to explain the muon puzzle. In addition, the work of Dr. Jean-Marco Alameddine enabled the first physically complete simulations with CORSIKA 8.