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 Alejandro Rodriguez (Photo: B. Wankerl/MPP)

„First of all, apply“

Interview with the Hanrieder Research Fellow Alejandro Rodriguez

Alejandro Rodriguez, the first Hanrieder Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, calls up for new candidates to apply. The PhD student from the University of Buenos Aires spent a research stay in the string theory group of the…

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War in Ukraine – statement of the MPP

The Max Planck Institute for Physics condemns Russia's attack on Ukraine and the increasing violence against the population of this country. Our sympathy and solidarity goes out to all those who are holding out in the cities; to the many who have to…

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View into the interior of the main spectrometer of the KATRIN experiment for the determination of the neutrino mass (Photo: Joachim Wolf/KIT)

New data from the KATRIN experiment: Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electronvolts

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN), located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has broken an important "barrier" in neutrino physics which is relevant for both particle physics and cosmology. Based on data…

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Quantum Gravity: German-Israeli cooperation signed and sealed

Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) will collaborate closely in the field of quantum gravity. The German Research Foundation (DFG) recently approved a three-year cooperation project that is…

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Erection of the water tank in the COSINUS experiment (Photos: U. di Sabatino/LNGS)

Dark Matter Experiment COSINUS: Preparations are in full swing

The construction of the COSINUS experiment in the underground laboratory at Gran Sasso LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso) is making great progress. The first large component has been erected in the last weeks. It is a water tank (7 meter in…

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Alexander von Humboldt Fellows: on the left Prof. Dr. Paolo Nason, guest of G. Zanderighi, on the right Dr. Niccolò Cribiori, guest of R. Blumenhagen (Photos: private; V. Kudrin/MPP)

Two Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Awardees at the MPP

With Paolo Nason and Niccolò Cribiori, the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) welcomes two fellows of the renowned Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: At the MPP, the two Italian scientists are conducting research in two different fields of…

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MPP director Giulia Zanderighi in her office (Photo: Barbara Wankerl/MPP)

Giulia Zanderighi receives Liesel Beckmann Professorship

Giulia Zanderighi, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics is now Liesel Beckmann Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). With this professorship, TUM honors outstanding female scientists whose careers serve as role models for…

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Giulia Zanderighi, director of the department "Novel computational techniques in particle physics" (Photo: A. Griesch/MPP)

Top quark: Searching for traces at the LHC with unprecedented precision

Interview with Giulia Zanderighi

The top quark is the heaviest of all elementary particles found in nature. The mass of this point-like particle corresponds to that of the comparatively of the much larger gold atom. One of the production sites for top quarks is the Large Hadron…

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Visitors meet elementary particles – online

Saturday, June 26, 2021: Open day at the Max Planck Institute for Physics

On June 26, the Max Planck Institute for Physics will be hosting another open day. The Institute is virtually opening its doors and offering the general public the opportunity to experience experiments and lectures live, to visit laboratories and…

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Proton bunches in sync: A train of short proton bunches travels through the plasma field, forming a wave on which electrons can be accelerated. (Image: AWAKE)

AWAKE brings proton bunches into sync

The future of particle acceleration has begun. AWAKE is a promising concept for a completely new method with which particles can be accelerated even over short distances. The basis for this is a plasma wave that accelerates electrons and thus brings…

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