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Astroparticle physics: Neutrinos weigh less than 0.45 electronvolts - precision scale KATRIN sets new record
The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has once again surpassed its own…
Girls- und Boys'Day at MPIK
On 3 April, the nationwide GirlsDay and BoysDay took place again. At the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, a total of 38 children took part…
Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia appointed as professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam
Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia has been appointed as professor by special appointment in Novel Detection and Analysis Techniques for Dark Matter and…
DPG Dissertation prize for Viviane Schmidt
This year's dissertation prize of the German Physical Society (DPG), section atoms, molecules, quantum optics and photonics, was awarded to Dr.…
A new benchmark for quantum electrodynamics in atoms
The g factor of boron-like tin ions is determined with an uncertainty of only 0.5 parts per billion. The second high-precision measurement for a…
Obituary for Hugo Fechtig
On 20 February 2025, at the age of 95, passed away Professor Dr. Hugo Fechtig, Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear…
Cross-disciplinary work on high-precision measurements pushes bounds on dark forces
Atomic, nuclear and particle physicists join efforts to search for new physics and open a new window to nuclear structure
So small and yet so powerful - The hidden power of the smallest microquasars
Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a…
Groundbreaking discovery by the CONUS+ experiment
First observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus Scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos by the CONUS+ experiment.
CTAO becomes an European Research Infrastructure Consortium
On 7 January 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure…
XENON result among Physics Magazine's Highlights of the Year
As they do every year, the editors of the American Physics Society's Physics Magazine have selected their personal scientific highlights of the past…
Quantum electrodynamic theory reaching extreme precision
New “two-loop” calculations tackled a tricky piece of the quantum electrodynamic (QED) puzzle with unprecedented precision: the electron self-energy.…
Professorships in China for three MPIK scientists
Three young scientists from the group of Karen Hatsagortsyan (Department Keitel) received professorships at excellent universities and research…
Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals sun’s history over millions of years
An international collaboration of scientists made first-ever measurement of the half-life for bound-state beta decay in 205Tl81+ ions at GSI storage…
Electrons from space
H.E.S.S. collaboration detects the most energetic cosmic-ray electrons and positrons ever observed
Sven Sturm appointed adjunct professor
On 20 November 2024, Heidelberg University appointed PD Dr Sven Sturm as an adjunct professor (apl. Prof.) at the suggestion of the Faculty of Physics…
Stern-Gerlach Medal for Klaus Blaum
Klaus Blaum receives the DPG’s most prestigious award in the field of experimental physics.
Long-sought measurement of exotic beta decay in thallium helps extract the timescale of the birth of the Sun
An international collaboration of scientists succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionised thallium (205Tl81+) ions at…
Soft X-ray Hanle effect for lifetime determination in highly charged ions
For the first time, the Hanle effect was detected in the soft X-ray regime for helium-like nitrogen ions. This opens up a new method for lifetime…
Rotation severely reshapes the decay of diatomic carbon anions
Almost 30 years after the first observation, the origin of the mysterious millisecond electron detachment signal of highly-excited C2− is explained by…