With the help of innovative large-scale simulations on various supercomputers, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have succeeded in gaining new insights into previously elusive aspects of the physics of strong interaction.

Associate Professor Dr. Georg von Hippel and Dr. Konstantin Ottnad from the Institute of Nuclear Physics and the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence have calculated the interaction of the pion with the Higgs field with unprecedented precision based on quantum chromodynamics. Their findings were recently published in Physical Review Letters.