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Dr. Raimund Strauss is awarded a ERC Starting Grant for the neutrino experiment NU-CLEUS.

Raimund Strauss receives prestigious ERC Starting Grant

NU-CLEUS experiment studies the nature of neutrinos

The neutrino is the lightest and most mysterious of all elementary particles. It is hoped that a better understanding of its properties will provide answers to many unresolved questions relating to the origin of the universe. In order to study these…

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The MAGIC telescopes in the Roque de los Muchachos observatory on the Canary island of La Palma

MAGIC telescopes trace origin of a rare cosmic neutrino

For the first time, astrophysicists have localized the source of a high energy cosmic neutrino originating outside the Milky Way. It is highly likely that the neutrino comes from a blazar, an active black hole at the center of a distant galaxy in the…

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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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