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Manfred Lindner elected AAAS Fellow
Honor for distinguished contributions to theoretical and experimental particle physics
The coherence time of extreme ultraviolet frequency combs
Highly charged ions as a stopwatch
What causes the mysterious XENON1T signal?
The XENON collaboration recently announced an unexpected signal in the low-energy electron-recoil spectrum of the XENON1T detector, i.e., in the area…
On the search for coherent neutrino scattering: First results of the CONUS project
An upper limit for fully coherent scattering of neutrinos off atomic nuclei was determined for the first time with the CONUS neutrino detector at the…
A new scenario for particle acceleration at pulsar wind termination shocks
Large-scale numerical simulations
Rotation of a molecule as an "internal clock"
Using a new method, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have investigated the ultrafast fragmentation of hydrogen…
Alternative Cosmologies on the Test Bench
Einstein's theory of general relativity and the standard model of cosmology based on it have so far been extremely successful. However, there are good…
Appointment of two MPIK scientists
The Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Liverpool, UK, has appointed two postdoctoral researchers of the MPI for Nuclear Physics…
Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society for Klaus Blaum
Highest European award in the field of nuclear physics
Achim Schwenk another five years Max Planck Fellow at MPIK
The President of the Max Planck Society has appointed Prof. Achim Schwenk, Institute for Nuclear Physics of TU Darmstadt, as Max Planck Fellow at the…
Mass of the deuteron corrected
High-precision measurements of the mass of the deuteron, the nucleus of heavy hydrogen, provide new insights into the reliability of fundamental…
Klaus Blaum new Vice President of the MPG
From 1 July 2020 the Max Planck Society has three new Vice Presidents elected by its Senate: Asifa Akhtar, Ulman Lindenberger and Klaus Blaum are now…
Are neutrinos their own antiparticles?
The final result of GERDA, presented at a virtual conference, improves the lower limit for the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay in…
Particle acceleration in extragalactic jets extends over thousands of light-years
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from…
Surprising Signal in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment
Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment,…
Adriana Pálffy-Buß in das Heisenberg-Programm aufgenommen
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat Privatdozentin Dr. Adriana Pálffy-Buß in das Heisenberg-Programm aufgenommen. Das nach dem…
New measurement exacerbates old problem
Two prominent X-ray emission lines of highly charged iron have puzzled astrophysicists for decades: their measured and calculated brightness ratios…
Quantum jump tipping the balance
Measuring tiny differences in mass between different quantum states provides new insights into heavy atoms