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First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT
Today, Wednesday, July the 10th, at the IDM conference in L’Aquila (IT), the XENONnT collaboration announced the first measurement of low-energy…
Habilitation of Christian Buck
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg has granted Dr Christian Buck the Venia Legendi for the subject of…
Workshop on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at MPIK
The workshop „New Physics Directions in the LHC era and beyond“ will take place at the MPIK from April 22nd to 26th. About 100 leading international…
Tracking down the secrets of neutrinos with supernovae
Scientists of the MPIK and the "Gleb Wataghin" Institute of Physics of the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil have investigated the influence…
Guoyuan Huang appointed at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan
Dr. Guoyuan Huang accepted as of Febrary 1, 2024, a call for an associate professorship at the School of Mathematics and Physics of the China…
CONUS+ starts data collection at KKL Leibstadt/CH
The CONUS project is about the exciting properties of neutrinos, weakly interacting particles that are extremely difficult to detect. Neutrinos, or…
Teaching prize of the faculty for Physics and Astronomy awarded to PD Dr. Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia
The MPIK congratulates PD Dr. Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia on being awarded the teaching prize of the faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg…
Girls'Day at MPIK
On April 27, for the first time since 2019, the Girls'Day took place again at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK).
First WIMP search results from the XENONnT experiment
The XENON collaboration presented today results from XENONnT, the latest-generation experiment of the XENON Dark Matter project dedicated to the…
Final results from the STEREO experiment reject sterile neutrino hypothesis
After several years of operation, the STEREO collaboration published the final results of their antineutrino studies. With their data, the researchers…
A second Higgs can enable light Dark Matter particles
There must be much more matter in the Universe than is visible. The nature of this dark matter is still a big puzzle − despite numerous attempts to…
First results from a Search for New Physics in Electronic Recoils from XENONnT
XENONnT, the latest detector of the XENON Dark Matter program, shows an unprecedentedly low background which facilitates searches for new, very rare…
Appointment of Giorgio Busoni
Assistance Professorship at the Australian National University
Frederik Depta receives a Best Paper Award
Frederik Depta receives a Best Paper Award from the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe" for his paper "Dark Matter from Exponential Growth"…
CONUS narrows the scope for “new physics”
There are a number of reasons why the Standard Model of particle physics is not considered to be complete. One very interesting option here is the…
Extreme purity for the hunt for dark matter
XENON1T, the world's most sensitive detector for the direct detection of dark matter, has enormous purity requirements, and even the tiniest amount of…
Funding for Florian Goertz's group extended
Due to the excellent result of an external review and a positive statement of the institute, the Max Planck Society has extended the funding of the…
Another milestone in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its final results on…
Manfred Lindner elected AAAS Fellow
Honor for distinguished contributions to theoretical and experimental particle physics
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Closing in on the neutrino mass
The GERDA experiment in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory is searching for a hypothetical nuclear decay called neutrinoless double beta decay…
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