The scientific objective of the Laboratory for the Study of High Energy Cosmic Phenomena (LEPCHE) is the discovery, characterization, classification, and understanding—from the perspective of fundamental physics—of the most energetic and violent astrophysical phenomena. These sources are usually revealed by their radiations in the high-energy domain (X-rays and γ-rays).
The main questions addressed involve the phenomenology of sources and families composing the "Violent Universe," the mechanisms at work in various types of transient sources, the physics and abundances of elements in supernova remnants (SNR), as well as the physics of shocks and the acceleration of particles and cosmic rays (CR).