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The Sonderforschungsbereich 1258 with its spokesperson Elisa Resconi warmly congratulates TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor Francis Halzen on receiving the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is being honored for his pioneering work in neutrino astronomy and the first detection of these cosmic…

Prof. Sherry Suyu, Principal Investigator of the SFB1258, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. Her project, LENS-ON-FIRE, will use the phenomenon of gravitational lensing to address one of the major open questions in cosmology: the expansion rate of the Universe.

During the past Antarctic summer season, a team of 51 scientists and technicians — including two members of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) — installed more than 600 new sensors at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The upgrade represents a major scientific and engineering…

Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE experiment at CERN’s particle accelerator, led by researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has for the first time directly observed how light atomic nuclei and…

The early Universe’s inflationary expansion could be realized using known interactions of the Standard Model — without invoking any additional new physics. This is the conclusion of a new theoretical study published in Physical Review Letters, co-authored by Marco Drewes, Mercator Fellow of the SFB…

The European Research Council has awarded scientist Prof. Lukas Heinrich an ERC Starting Grant. Lukas Heinrich holds the professorship for Data Science in Physics at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is a principal investigator of the SFB1258 as well as coordinator of the Excellence Cluster…

The Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) announced the large-scale research projects that have made it onto the shortlist of the National Prioritization Procedure for Research Infrastructures (FIS). Among them are two internationally outstanding projects from the TUM School of…

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…