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    Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

    The institute campus with a view of Heidelberg

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    The cryogenic storage ring CSR

    Copper strips distribute the cold to the experimental vacuum chambers of the CSR

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    Cameras for CTA

    CHEC for small telescopes in front of FlashCam for medium-sized telescopes

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    interactions in extremely intense laser pulses:

    pair creation and spin-dependent trajectories

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    CONUS experiment

    The four germanium detectors of the neutrino experiment CONUS inside their shielding

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    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).

 

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Physik am Samstagmorgen

Nie wieder zu spät! - Die genausten Uhren der Welt

Samstag, 16. März 2024 um 9:30 Uhr
im Otto-Hahn-Hörsaal des Instituts (Bibliotheksgebäude)

Physik…

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Obituary for Bogdan Povh

On 14 February 2024, at the age of 91, passed away Professor Dr Bogdan Povh, Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear…

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Tracking down the secrets of neutrinos with supernovae

Scientists of the MPIK and the "Gleb Wataghin" Institute of Physics of the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil have investigated the influence…

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