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07/04/2022

10 years of the Higgs boson

A collision event in the ATLAS detector: Higgs boson coupling to top quark (Picture: ATLAS/CERN)

Exactly ten years ago, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced a resounding success: Little less than three years after the launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the last missing piece in the Standard Model of particle physics had been found: The Higgs boson, a kind of messenger of the…

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04/14/2022

Nova outbursts are apparently a source for cosmic rays

MAGIC telescopes observe nova explosion

The binary star system RS Ophiuchi: Matter flows from the red giant onto the white dwarf. The newly added stellar envelopes explode in a bright nova about every 15 years. (Artwork: superbossa.com/MPP)

The MAGIC telescopes have observed the nova RS Ophiuchi shining brightly in gamma rays at extremely high energy. The Gamma rays emanate from protons that are accelerated to very high energies in the shock front following the explosion. This suggests that novae are also a source of the ubiquitous…

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02/14/2022

New data from the KATRIN experiment: Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electronvolts

View into the interior of the main spectrometer of the KATRIN experiment for the determination of the neutrino mass (Photo: Joachim Wolf/KIT)

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN), located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has broken an important "barrier" in neutrino physics which is relevant for both particle physics and cosmology. Based on data published in the prestigious journal Nature Physics, a…

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01/25/2022

Dark Matter Experiment COSINUS: Preparations are in full swing

Erection of the water tank in the COSINUS experiment (Photos: U. di Sabatino/LNGS)

The construction of the COSINUS experiment in the underground laboratory at Gran Sasso LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso) is making great progress. The first large component has been erected in the last weeks. It is a water tank (7 meter in diameter and height) that carries out the…

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12/01/2021

Giulia Zanderighi receives Liesel Beckmann Professorship

MPP director Giulia Zanderighi in her office (Photo: Barbara Wankerl/MPP)

Giulia Zanderighi, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics is now Liesel Beckmann Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). With this professorship, TUM honors outstanding female scientists whose careers serve as role models for young female academics.

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