Three young scientists from the group of Karen Hatsagortsyan (Department Keitel) received professorships at excellent universities and research…

Part of the science fiction genre is the famous protective shield that spaceships can raise. This is similar for atoms: The electron shell as an…

What is the mass of a neutrino at rest? This is one of the big unanswered questions in physics. Neutrinos play a central role in nature. A team led by…

At the turn of the year, Honorarprofessor Dr. Christoph H. Keitel on a rotational basis took over the Institute management of MPIK. This is his second…

A group of the theory division at MPIK identified a slingshotlike electron injection process in preturbulent relativistic plasma shocks distinct from…

Joint experimental-theoretical study at MPIK identifies a metastable state in highly charged lead

Measurement of the g factor of the electron in hydrogen-like tin confirms the standard model of particle physics under extremely high electric field…

PhD student of the MPI for Nuclear Physics honored for outstanding doctoral thesis

Using particle-in-cell simulations scientists from the theoretical quantum dynamics division at MPIK showed that electron radiative polarization…

The Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics congratulates Prof. Dr. Christoph Keitel on receiving the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and…

PD Dr. Antonino Di Piazza has accepted a call to a full tenured professorship at the University of Rochester in NY, USA, and as distinguished…

Four-decade enigma of cosmic X-rays solved

High-precision high-energy physics at accelerators demands longitudinally spin-polarized electron beams, e.g., the Q-weak experiment at Jefferson Lab…

When a light wave hits a double-slit, a characteristic pattern of bright and dark stripes appears behind the obstacle, generated by constructive or…

Using a newly developed technique, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg have measured the very small…

In a joint experimental-theoretical study, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), together with collaborators…

Both the work on coherent control of nuclear excitations with suitably shaped X-ray light and the new method for sympathetic laser cooling of protons…

PD Dr. Adriana Pálffy-Buß has accepted an appointment to a W2 professorship in theoretical quantum information and quantum optics at…

With precise mass measurements and highly accurate calculations, a team led by MPI for Nuclear Physics has now succeeded in independently testing the…

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg has coherently controlled nuclear excitations using suitably…

Novel theoretical concept

Highly charged ions as a stopwatch

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat Privatdozentin Dr. Adriana Pálffy-Buß in das Heisenberg-Programm aufgenommen. Das nach dem…

Two prominent X-ray emission lines of highly charged iron have puzzled astrophysicists for decades: their measured and calculated brightness ratios…

Measuring tiny differences in mass between different quantum states provides new insights into heavy atoms

Orbital crossing and optical clock transition detected in Pr⁹⁺

Verleihung im Rahmen eines Akademischen Festakts der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

g-Faktor des gebundenen Elektrons in borartigen Argon-Ionen mit höchster Präzision gemessen

Simulationsrechnungen zeigen neue Verfahren zur effizienten Polarisation