The scientific work of IKP-2 focuses on the topics "Precision experiments with polarized particles".
A central project here is the search for permanent electric dipole moments (EDM) of charged hadrons (JEDI), which - if they exist - can provide an answer to the question why the universe today contains almost exclusively matter, although according to current understanding matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts shortly after the Big Bang.
Furthermore, polarised particles produced in polarised targets or polarised ion sources are investigated.
In the course of the transition of the IKP from the research centre to the GSI, the neutrino physics group of Prof. Dr. Livia Ludhova previously assigned to the IKP-2 was relocated to the University of Mainz.
The former hadron physics experiments at the internal detector systems ANKE und WASA have been finished successfully at the end of the previous funding period. Individual data analysis projects are still underway. The scientific results concerning hadron physics at COSY have been summarized in an review article.
