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Aude Glaenzer and Paul Ripoche at one of their favorite place at the MPP: the tennis court.

A summer with neutrino physics

Aude Glaenzer and Paul Ripoche, two master students in their first year at the famous École normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay, spent four months as interns at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics. They worked with Dr. Susanne Mertens’ KATRIN/TRISTAN…

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Prof. Elisa Resconi

Elisa Resconi heads new Max Planck Fellow group at the MPP

Elisa Resconi has been a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) since the beginning of August 2017. As part of the Fellow program, she will be setting up a new working group at the MPP dedicated to theoretical and experimental aspects…

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Abbildungen: Enßlin/MPA

Café & Kosmos on September 12, 2017: Probability and truth - information theory for the universe & everyday life

The MPP Team

Physics on the run – MPP participates in the company run in Munich

For the first time, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) took part in last Thursday’s company run: 13 highly motivated runners completed the 6-kilometer course through the Olympic park, some of them achieving a new personal best.…

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Two former MPP scientists have been awarded the renowned EPS Prize: Robert Klanner (left) and Gerhard Lutz, recently deceased.

EPS Prize for two former MPP scientists

The European Physical Society honors Dr. Erik Heijne, Prof. Dr. Robert Klanner and Dr. Gerhard Lutz with the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize 2017 for the development of silicon detectors.

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A candidate for a Higgs boson decay into two electrons (blue) and two muons (red), recorded in September 2015 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.

Exploring the unknown with the Higgs boson - new ATLAS results released

Exactly five years after the Higgs boson discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, new studies of this particle, involving significant MPP contributions, are presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Venice. The results are based on Run-2…

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The newly developed chip for the new readout system of the muon chambers used in HL-LHC. (Photo: M. Fras/MPP)

ATLAS Muon Detector Readout Electronics Workshop, 03-04 July 2017 at MPP

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be upgraded to ten times higher beam intensity by the year 2025, the high-luminosity Phase-II of the LHC, called HL-LHC.  It which will lead to a further increase of the discovery potential for new…

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Photo: A. Griesch/MPP

June 24, 2017: Open Day at the Max Planck Institute for Physics

When two particles meet ...

On June 24, 2017 from 10 am to 5 pm the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) invites visitors to its Open Day. Under the slogan “When two particles meet …” scientists show and explain the fascinating topics in particle physics.

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Andreas Hartmann, Head of Administration at the MPI for Physics

Andreas Hartmann is the new Head of Administration at the MPP

The Max Planck Institute for Physics has a new Head of Administration: Andreas Hartmann succeeds Dr. Elisabeth Träder, who has now retired after many years of service.

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Café & Kosmos on June 20, 2017: How many dimensions does the universe have?