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10/03/2023

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…

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07/27/2023

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).

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06/29/2023

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…

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02/16/2023

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…

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01/31/2023

Irene Tamborra, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Mercator Fellow of the SFB1258, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project ANET to solve the riddle of how neutrinos affect the physics of spectacular cosmic fireworks in the death of massive stars as core-collapse supernova…

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12/12/2022

How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as yet it has not been possible to prove directly that dark matter exists. A research team including Technical University of Munich (TUM) scientists has now measured for the…

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11/03/2022

For over ten years the IceCube Observatory in the Antarctic has been monitoring the light traces of extragalactic neutrinos. While evaluating the observatory's data, an international research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) discovered a high-energy neutrino radiation source in…

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10/11/2022

Neutrinos occupy a key position in particle physics and in cosmology: without measuring their mass, our understanding of the universe will remain incomplete. The world's leading experiment to determine the neutrino mass, the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) is now led by two new…

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04/26/2022

Elisa Resconi, speaker of the SFB1258, receives an ERC Advanced Grant for starting a new observatory for cosmic neutrinos. Within the next five years Resconi and her team will develop and deploy the first three strings of P-ONE, the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment.

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02/14/2022

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN), located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has broken an important "barrier" in neutrino physics which is relevant for both particle physics and cosmology. Based on data published in the prestigious journal Nature Physics, a…

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