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Is the neutrino its own antiparticle? How large a mass do neutrinos have? Scientists working on the GERDA experiment want to find answers to these questions. The first results of the second measurement phase, which began in December, were recently…

Lena Funcke, Maximilian Totzauer and Sebastian Zell of the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) have been granted a special honor: Together with around 400 other young scientists from 80 countries, the two doctoral candidates will take part in the…

First signs of life for the particle accelerator SuperKEKB: Lately electrons and positrons have begun making their rounds in the modernized facility of the Japanese research center KEK. The first collisions electrons and positron beams are expected…

How can accelerator experiments reach ever-higher energies? The AWAKE project uses a completely new technology to increase energies produced in particle accelerators by an order of magnitude. A key component was now put into place at CERN: a…

Was erforschen Teilchenphysiker? Wie gewinnen sie ihre Erkenntnisse? Am 25. Februar 2015 können Schülerinnen und Schüler einen Tag lang Teilchenphysik "live" erleben. Dazu laden das Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, die Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität…