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The SFB1258 invites TUM physics students (B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD) to join forces with art students from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich for a groundbreaking interdisciplinary project exploring fundamental physics through artistic expression. Apply by 13 July 2025 (prolonged deadline) to be part of this…

Astroparticle physics researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and artists from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK) and the Haus der Kunst are working together on a cross-disciplinary project: The Collaborative Research Centre 1258 ‘Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle…

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) at the Karls-ruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has again surpassed its achievements. The la-test data published in Science establish an upper limit of 8 x 10-37 kg (or, in scienti-fic language, 0.45 eV/c2) for the neutrino mass. With…

JUNO, the world's largest detector for physics with low-energy neutrinos, has been completed after a construction period of almost ten years. Data acquisition has already begun, while the detector is being filled with 20,000 tons of high-purity scintillation fluid. The physicists involved are…

The Sonderforschungsbereich 1258 (Collaborative Research Center, CRC1258), Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, has been granted funding by the Deutsche Forschungegemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation) for its third funding period, running from 2025 to 2028.

The researchers of the ALICE collaboration present the first exploration of the strong interaction within a system of three nucleons. This was achieved by measuring the relative velocities between pairs of protons and deuterons produced in proton-proton collisions at the ALICE detector at the LHC,…

The scientists of the GERDA collaboration have published the most precise determination of the 76Ge two-neutrino double-beta decay half-life to date and one of the most precise measurements of a double beta decay process at all. The publication is part of the final results of the GERDA experiment…

Hans Niederhausen, IceCube collaborator and postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University (MSU), has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Shakti P. Duggal Award presented by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the Milky Way. The analysis of ten years of observation data using machine learning methods led to the success for which Elisa Resconi's group at the Technical University of…

Elisa Resconi, who initiated the project for a new high-energy astrophysical neutrino detector in the Pacific Ocean, was elected the first spokesperson of the P-ONE collaboration. The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Telescope is a proposed cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope to be deployed off the coast…