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What do physicists expect from future colliders? On their wish list, you’ll find not only higher energies, but also more accurate measurements than with instruments in use today. A workshop that takes place on June 1-2, 2017 at the MPI for Physics…

The Max Planck Institute for Physics is mourning the death of Dr. Gerhard Lutz. The physicist and head of the semiconductor laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Extraterrestrial Physics (HLL) for many years has passed away at the…

Vladislav Kupriyanov has recently joined the Max Planck Institute for Physics as a postdoctoral research fellow. The scientist dedicates himself primarily to aspects of the quantization of string theory and M-theory and will collaborate with the…

With the passing of Wolfhart Zimmermann, former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP), in September 2016, the world of theoretical physics lost one of its most important and innovative pioneers: Zimmermann made outstanding…

The universe needs new particles: Many phenomena cannot be satisfactorily explained on the basis of the elementary particles known today. One such new particle is the axion. The CAST experiment at CERN has been searching for axions from the Sun since…

The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) successfully completed the "roll-in" of the Belle II detector. This is an important milestone for the international Belle II collaboration and the SuperKEKB accelerator.

Scientists report an important milestone in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0vββ). As published in Nature, the GERDA experiment succeeded in reducing the radiation background to an extent that there are practically no disturbing…

A change is announced in the CRESST scientific research group (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) searching for dark matter. Federica Petricca, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics since 2005, succeeds Franz…