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The KATRIN experiment: view of the large spectrometer. Here, scientists measure the energy of electrons emitted in Tritium decay. The energy is supposed to disclose the mass of the neutrino.

Neutrinos on the world's most accurate scales

Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment KATRIN begins measurements – Ceremonial commissioning on June 11, 2018

How heavy are neutrinos? This seemingly trivial question is one of the most important problems in modern particle physics and cosmology. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment KATRIN, which began on June 11, 2018, aims to answer this question: it…

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ATLAS candidate event for the Higgs boson production in association with two top quarks. The Higgs boson is detected through its decay into two photons (light blue lines), while the top quark decays are reconstructed from six hadronic showers (yellow and blue cones).

Scientists observe coupling of the Higgs boson to top quarks

New Results from the ATLAS Experiment

Almost exactly six years ago, CERN discovered the Higgs boson, which is responsible for the mass of other elementary particles. Since then, the Higgs particle has been the focus of extensive research. For the first time, scientists from the ATLAS…

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The Belle II detector records and analyses particle collisions produced by SuperKEKB.

Belle II measures first particle collisions

The particle physics community has been waiting for this moment for a long time: On 26 April 2018 0:38, GMT+09:00 at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan matter and anti-matter particles collided for the first time in the new SuperKEKB accelerator. News of this…

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The Belle II detector records and analyses particle collisions produced by SuperKEKB.

Search for antimatter: SuperKEKB accelerator kicks into new gear

Following an eight year conversion period, the SuperKEKB particle accelerator in Japan is almost ready to restart: soon, electrons and positrons will be brought to collision in the completely modernized accelerator ring. In future, the Belle II…

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Students at the International Masterclass

Particle physics, like in real life - research day for students

International Masterclass on March 7, 2018

Physicists the world over are concerned with the smallest building blocks of matter - the elementary particles. Why are these particles so fascinating? How is it even possible to investigate these utterly unfathomable objects? And what can they tell…

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