The Council of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society, DPG) has unanimously elected particle physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer to be the next President of the DPG for the period of office starting in 2016. The DPG is the largest physical society in the world with over 62,000…

This week ATLAS launched the citizen science project "Higgs Hunters" in cooperation with Oxford University and New York University. The project gives volunteers the chance to help researchers deal with the huge amount of data that confronts them.

On November 24th CERN launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and also be…

Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of two new baryons. The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before.

On this year's IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium in Seattle on 15 November Jelena Ninković received the 2014 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award.

The radio galaxy IC 310 in the Perseus constellation is approximately 260 million light years away from Earth. Astronomers assume there is a supermassive black hole at its centre. This black hole was the setting for an extremely powerful outburst of gamma rays which was observed by the MAGIC…

Ministerialdirektor a.D. Hermann Schunck, ehemaliger Mitarbeiter des Forschungsministeriums und ehemaliger deutscher Delegierter im CERN-Rat, erzählt seine eigene Geschichte der Entwicklung des Large Hadron Collider.

Er erinnert sich an Finanzierungsengpässe, die Wiedervereinigung und die…

The discovery of the Higgs boson isn't like the average record listet in the Guiness Book of Records. Normally achievements listet in the book can be exceeded. Because of its scientific significance the discovery of the 'God Particle' was included in the Guiness Book of Records on occasion of the…

Preparations for the new Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN have begun. The AWAKE team at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich is preparing to move both equipment and know-how to CERN.

Our admired and esteemed colleague, Dr. Eckart Lorenz, passed away unexpectedly in Berlin on June 21, 2014. After a very successful career in particle physics, Eckart Lorenz was for many years the leader for the HEGRA and MAGIC projects at our institute. He made a number of very important scientific…