Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Welcome to the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics) in Heidelberg, a research establishment of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society). The MPIK does experimental and theoretical basic research in the fields of Astroparticle Physics (crossroads of particle physics and astrophysics) and Quantum Dynamics (dynamics of atoms and molecules).
News
New beginnings: The dawn of TRISTAN
After more than eight years of operation, the KATRIN experiment has completed its neutrino-mass measurement campaigns. With its focal-plane detector…
The Rosetta Stone of Neutrino Physics
A new SciTube video takes viewers inside the LEGEND experiment and the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, featuring MPIK physicist Dr.…
A new neutrino facility in sight at Cruas-Meysse
A new neutrino facility may be emerging beneath the Cruas-Meysse nuclear power station in France.
Just 15 metres from the reactor core, this site…
Research Fields
Astroparticle Physics
Sources of high-energy gamma rays
Dark matter and neutrinos
Matter-antimatter asymmetry
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Quantum Dynamics
Properties of stored cold ions
Role of time in quantum systems
Effect of strong lasers on matter
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