Experimental neutrino physics – this is the main topic of a new Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. The Group will is led by Susanne Mertens, who has previously worked on the KATRIN and the Majorana experiments at the Karlsruhe…
Researchers are carrying out various experiments to check the currently valid Standard Model of elementary particle physics. They are also searching for other phenomena which occur beyond the Standard Model – for “new physics”. Their search is based…
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…
