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X-ray double flashes control atomic nuclei
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg has coherently controlled nuclear excitations using suitably…
Funding for Florian Goertz's group extended
Due to the excellent result of an external review and a positive statement of the institute, the Max Planck Society has extended the funding of the…
Measuring chirps at extremely high frequencies
A new method provides an ultrafast plasma switch, which temporally cuts off parts of high-frequency light flashes. Carried trillions of times faster…
BASE opens up new possibilities in the search for cold dark matter
The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN’s Antimatter Factory has set new limits on the mass of axion-like particles – hypothetical…
Limits of atomic nuclei predicted
Novel calculations have enabled the study of nearly 700 isotopes between helium and iron, showing which nuclei can exist and which cannot. In an…
Jonas Karthein receives the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Dissertation Prize 2020
For his PhD thesis on "Next-Generation Mass Spectrometry of Exotic Isotopes and Isomers" Dr. Jonas Karthein was awarded the Heidelberg Wilhelm and…
New Managing Director
At the turn of the year, Prof. Dr. Jim Hinton on a rotational basis took over the Institute management of MPIK. Deputy for the next 18 months is…
Another milestone in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its final results on…
No longer “faster than permitted by our galaxy” ...
A collaboration between the groups of Maurice Leutenegger, José Crespo and Sven Bernitt from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MPIK, Helmholtz…
Jason Mather erfolgreich als Feinmechanik-Azubi
Glückwunsch zum Sieg im Leistungswettbewerb des Deutschen Handwerks
Stern-Gerlach Medal for Joachim Ullrich
Joachim Ullrich, PTB President and External Scientific Member of the MPIK, receives the DPG’s most prestigious award in the field of experimental…
Manfred Lindner elected AAAS Fellow
Honor for distinguished contributions to theoretical and experimental particle physics
The coherence time of extreme ultraviolet frequency combs
Highly charged ions as a stopwatch
What causes the mysterious XENON1T signal?
The XENON collaboration recently announced an unexpected signal in the low-energy electron-recoil spectrum of the XENON1T detector, i.e., in the area…
On the search for coherent neutrino scattering: First results of the CONUS project
An upper limit for fully coherent scattering of neutrinos off atomic nuclei was determined for the first time with the CONUS neutrino detector at the…
A new scenario for particle acceleration at pulsar wind termination shocks
Large-scale numerical simulations
Rotation of a molecule as an "internal clock"
Using a new method, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have investigated the ultrafast fragmentation of hydrogen…
Alternative Cosmologies on the Test Bench
Einstein's theory of general relativity and the standard model of cosmology based on it have so far been extremely successful. However, there are good…