Press Releases

More press releases on the German PRISMA+ website
2025
13.01.2025
Livia Ludhova receives the Order of Ľudovít-Štúr for exceptional contributions in the field of science

Image linkHigh honor from the Slovak Republic for JGU physicist and member of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence
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2024
19.12.2024
Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon – new calculation confirms Standard Model of particle physics

Image linkContribution of hadronic vacuum polarization determined with unprecedented accuracy. ...
16.12.2024
Milestone for cutting-edge research in Mainz: Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP) inaugurated

Image linkThe Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP) will provide an outstanding infrastructure for the cutting-edge research of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence. ...
25.11.2024
21-ton magnet installed in new MESA particle accelerator

Image linkSuperconducting core component for international P2 experiment installed in underground hall at a depth of ten meters. ...
08.10.2024
Pierre Capel elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Image linkThis honor recognizes his careful and creative application of few-body methods to the study of nuclear reactions involving exotic nuclei. ...
25.09.2024
NA62 experiment at CERN observes ultra-rare particle decay

Image link The NA62 collaboration reported the unequivocal confirmation of the ultra-rare decay of a positively charged kaon into a positively charged pion and a neutrino–antineutrino pair. Experiments including NA62 have previously measured and seen evidence of this process, but this is the first time it has been measured with a statistical significance of five standard deviations, crossing the threshold traditionally required to claim a discovery in particle physics. ...
12.09.2024
JGU hosts annual meeting of the ATLAS Collaborative Research Center

Image link Around 120 physicists are coming together on the campus of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from September 10 to 13 to analyze data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC/CERN. ...
12.08.2024
Mainz Particle Physics Academy at JGU

Image link At the Mainz Particle Physics Academy, a total of 16 high school students did research at the MAMI particle accelerator. ...
05.08.2024
Cold antimatter for quantum state-resolved precision measurements

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Experimental breakthrough of the BASE international research collaboration / Johannes Gutenberg University involved
 
Why does the universe contain matter and (virtually) no antimatter? The BASE international research collaboration at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, headed by Professor Stefan Ulmer from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and with the participation of Professor Jochen Walz of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), has achieved an experimental breakthrough in this context. It can contribute to measuring the mass and magnetic moment of antiprotons more precisely than ever before – and thus identify possible matter-antimatter asymmetries. BASE has developed a trap, which can cool individual antiprotons much more rapidly than in the past, as the researchers now explain in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
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11.07.2024
First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT

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At the IDM conference in L’Aquila (IT), the XENONnT collaboration announced the first measurement of low-energy nuclear recoils from neutrinos produced in nuclear reactions inside the sun, particularly those involving the element boron. ...

 
Press release of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (INFN)

31.05.2024
New CRC 1660: Hadrons and Nuclei as Discovery Tools

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Collaborative Research Centre at JGU's Institute for Nuclear Physics seeks new physical phenomena through a better understanding of strong interaction processes. ...
16.04.2024
Understanding the universe: SHiP experiment promises new insights into the world of elementary particles

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Researchers from six German scientific institutions contribute significantly to the new experiment at the CERN research center for particle physics with detector developments. ...
11.04.2024
ERC Advanced Grant for Maarten Boonekamp in collaboration with Jens Erler and Frank Maas

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New physics in parity violation: From the Thomson limit to the energy frontier. The consortium of Professor Maarten Boonekamp from Université Paris-Saclay as spokesperson and Professor Jens Erler and Professor Frank Maas of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for their project Zeptometry. ...
28.02.2024
Mainz hosts the 16th "Terascale Detector Workshop"

Image linkBorn within the Helmholtz Alliance “Physics at the Terascale”, a network of German research institutes working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the Terascale Detector Workshop has now reached its 16th edition ...

2023

13.12.2023
Matthias Neubert named Erwin Schrödinger Visiting Scientist 2024

Image linkAwarded for outstanding contributions to the field of theoretical elementary particle physics with a visiting professorship in Vienna ...

11.12.2023
Searching for axions with the ATLAS detector

Image linkLatest measurements provide valuable information on novel particles that could explain the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon ...

11.10.2023
Powerful magnets for MAGIX

Image linkCore components for the upcoming MESA experiment MAGIX have arrived in Mainz ...

06.10.2023
Calculation of the proton radius significantly improved

Image linkTheoretical physicists at the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence present new comprehensive lattice calculations ...

07.09.2023
On the track of elusive neutrinos

Image linkProject 8 experiment reaches important milestone to measure neutrino mass ...

05.09.2023
Made in Germany and big in Japan: Pixel Vertex detector installed in Belle II experiment

Image linkConcettina Sfienti's research group at the Institute for Nuclear Physics is involved in design and construction ...

10.08.2023
Muon g-2 collaboration doubles precision with latest measurement

Image linkUncharted territory explored in search of new physics ...

20.07.2023
Marvin Schnubel receives Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Image linkNew theoretical model to help in the search for new physics ...

01.06.2023
Thorium-229: A new approach to investigation opens up a wide range of possibilities

Image linkInternational research team reveals in Physical Review Research how the first nuclear transition can be excited with lasers in the visible wavelength range ...

24.04.2023
New electron scattering experiment designed for the excitation of the helium nucleus raises fundamental questions about our current understanding of nuclear forces

Image linkTheoretical predictions and new experimental data on 4He, measured with great accuracy, diverge significantly from each other ...

30.03.2023
Second ERC Advanced Grant for Matthias Neubert

Image linkNovel theoretical predictions to advance the search for new physics at the LHC / Funding worth EUR 2.5 million ...

23.03.2023
Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

Image linkAn improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics ...

23.03.2023
First WIMP search results from the XENONnT experiment

Image linkPhD student Daniel Wenz from Mainz University presents data at a seminar at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy ...

22.03.2023
First neutrinos made by particle collider detected

Image linkDiscovery promises to help physicists understand the nature of the universe's most abundant particle ...

21.03.2023
New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions

Image link Team of scientists at Mainz University finds a way to evaluate highly complex Feynman integrals ...

01.02.2023
Amplified search for new forces

Image link Special setup uses polarized rubidium and xenon as transmitter and receiver system for exotic fields ...

23.01.2023
A new model for dark matter

Image link Phase transition in the early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter ...

2022

04.11.2022
IceCube neutrinos give us first glimpse into the inner depths of an active galaxy

Image link Mainz-based scientists have been members of the IceCube consortium since 1999 ...

21.10.2022
Newly discovered optical effect allows IceCube to deduce ice crystal properties

Image link Understanding the ice: Mainz team of scientists succeeds in seeing through the diffuse ice of Antarctica ...

21.10.2022
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon – a new conundrum comes to light

Image link New calculations based on fundamental theories deviate from the currently accepted theoretical value ...

11.10.2022
10 years PRISMA Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Image link Significant scientific success and fantastic research opportunities at the Mainz Gutenberg Campus ...

Click here for the picture gallery "10 years of PRISMA" on October 10 at the Staatstheater Mainz

23.09.2022
Quantum mechanics put to the test: one and two may not equal three

Image linkThree scientists - among them Prof. Dmitry Budker from the Mainz Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ - propose test for hypothesis of Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg...

04.07.2022
After three years: start of first particle collisions at unprecedented energies at LHC

Image linkThe ATLAS detector more powerful than ever – with major contributions from Mainz University ...

11.04.2022
Photon-photon interactions in the Standard Model and beyond: New research unit at JGU granted DFG funding

Image linkA pure quantum effect as the key to a better understanding of the subatomic world / New research program in Mainz bundles a wide range of expertise ...

20.01.2022
Worldwide coordinated search for dark matter

Image linkSensor network GNOME publishes comprehensive data in Nature Physics for the first time / Nine stations in six countries involved
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05.01.2022
Matter-antimatter symmetry and antimatter gravity studied at once

Image linkBASE collaboration sets new standards / Research group from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz involved in publication in Nature
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