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Lindley Winslow is a new director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics

American experimental physicist Lindley Winslow took office as director of the new department “Rare Event Physics” at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) in early September. Most recently, she conducted research and taught at the renowned…

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Simulated event display of a 14 TeV HL-LHC collision, with 200 simultaneous collisions per bunch crossing reconstructed with the new ITk detector

The High-Luminosity era at the LHC: MPP makes significant contributions to the upgrade of the ATLAS experiment

On 26 June 2026 at 06:00 am, the final proton-proton collisions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were recorded by the ATLAS experiment at CERN. This milestone brings to a close one remarkable chapter in particle physics and begins an ambitious…

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Next step in the matter-antimatter mystery: World's largest B-meson dataset

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan has accumulated a vast number of B-meson events in its search for physics beyond the Standard Model. With this unique dataset, the international collaboration, including researchers from…

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Dark matter: Detection with sugar?

Study investigates sucrose as a possible detector material

The nature of dark matter remains a mystery. Particles of different masses are possible candidates. For some time now, researchers have been searching for very light dark matter particles, for which novel detection methods must be developed. A…

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Cosmic Investigations: Tracing the origin of the astrophysical particle Amaterasu

Cosmic rays are messengers from space that scientists use to study the Universe. Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche from the Max Planck Institute for Physics have investigated one of the most energetic cosmic rays ever observed: the Amaterasu…

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