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…
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…
Preparations for the new Belle II detector at the modernized SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan are in full swing. A few months ago, Belle II was rolled into position in the accelerator ring. Individual detector system tests will now follow: on November…
The Max Planck Institute for Physics commemoratds its 100th anniversary. On October 1, 1917, the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics started operations with Albert Einstein as director. The MPI for Physics celebrated its jubilee with a…
Scientists report an important milestone in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0vββ). As published in Nature, the GERDA experiment succeeded in reducing the radiation background to an extent that there are practically no disturbing…
