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 new Vice President of the MPG
From 1 July 2020 the Max Planck Society has three new Vice Presidents elected by its Senate: Asifa Akhtar, Ulman Lindenberger and Klaus Blaum are now…
Are neutrinos their own antiparticles?
The final result of GERDA, presented at a virtual conference, improves the lower limit for the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay in…
Particle acceleration in extragalactic jets extends over thousands of light-years
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from…
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
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