The workshop „New Physics Directions in the LHC era and beyond“ will take place at the MPIK from April 22nd to 26th. About 100 leading international…

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

Dr. Guoyuan Huang accepted as of Febrary 1, 2024, a call for an associate professorship at the School of Mathematics and Physics of the China…

The CONUS project is about the exciting properties of neutrinos, weakly interacting particles that are extremely difficult to detect. Neutrinos, or…

The MPIK congratulates PD Dr. Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia on being awarded the teaching prize of the faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg…

On April 27, for the first time since 2019, the Girls'Day took place again at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK).

The XENON collaboration presented today results from XENONnT, the latest-generation experiment of the XENON Dark Matter project dedicated to the…

After several years of operation, the STEREO collaboration published the final results of their antineutrino studies. With their data, the researchers…

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…

XENONnT, the latest detector of the XENON Dark Matter program, shows an unprecedentedly low background which facilitates searches for new, very rare…

Assistance Professorship at the Australian National University

Frederik Depta receives a Best Paper Award from the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe" for his paper "Dark Matter from Exponential Growth"…

IUPAP Neutrino White Paper published.

There are a number of reasons why the Standard Model of particle physics is not considered to be complete. One very interesting option here is the…

XENON1T, the world's most sensitive detector for the direct detection of dark matter, has enormous purity requirements, and even the tiniest amount of…

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…

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its final results on…

Honor for distinguished contributions to theoretical and experimental particle physics

Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University

The XENON collaboration recently announced an unexpected signal in the low-energy electron-recoil spectrum of the XENON1T detector, i.e., in the area…

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…

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…

The Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Liverpool, UK, has appointed two postdoctoral researchers of the MPI for Nuclear Physics…

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…

Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment,…

Resolving a tension with LHC data

Extrem seltene Elementumwandlung erstmals beobachtet

Das Stereo-Experiment hat auf der Konferenz "Rencontres de Moriond" seine neuesten Ergebnisse vorgestellt. Diese schließen den größten Teil der…

Für seine herausragende Forschungsleistung im Rahmen seiner im Juni 2017 abgeschlossenen Dissertation erhält Dr. Ludwig Rauch einen…