Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
The institute campus with a view of Heidelberg
The cryogenic storage ring CSR
Copper strips distribute the cold to the experimental vacuum chambers of the CSR
Cameras for CTA
CHEC for small telescopes in front of FlashCam for medium-sized telescopes
interactions in extremely intense laser pulses:
pair creation and spin-dependent trajectories
CONUS experiment
The four germanium detectors of the neutrino experiment CONUS inside their shielding
Fano profile
The emergence of a spectral line
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
Klaus Blaum elected to the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Since 06.09.2022 Klaus Blaum is officially a full member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. As director at the MPI for Nuclear Physics,…
A second Higgs can enable light Dark Matter particles
There must be much more matter in the Universe than is visible. The nature of this dark matter is still a big puzzle − despite numerous attempts to…
Westerlund 1: a powerful cosmic-ray accelerator
Since more than 100 years, we know that cosmic rays – charged particles – are accelerated to extremely high energies in the Milky Way, our galaxy. And…
Research Fields
Astroparticle Physics
Sources of high-energy gamma rays
Dark matter and neutrinos
Matter-antimatter asymmetry
more
Quantum Dynamics
Properties of stored cold ions
Role of time in quantum systems
Effect of strong lasers on matter
more
