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Picture: Patrick MüllerPicture: Patrick Müller
How large is a carbon nucleus?
2025/07/09
TU researchers set a new benchmark
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Adrian Brauch defended his dissertation successfully
2025/06/25
Adrian Brauch (AccelencE, ELEMENTS, Nuclear Photonics) defended his dissertation entitled “Versatile Bunch Length Measurement Setup for Femtocoulomb Bunch Charges at the S-DALINAC” successfully. Congratulations.
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The ‘strange’ side of atomic nuclei
2025/06/17
Professor Alexandre Obertelli receives ERC Advanced Grant worth €2.9 million
Unlike normal atomic nuclei, little is known about so-called hypernuclei, which belong to the category of ‘strange matter’. Prof. Alexandre Obertelli from the Institute for Nuclear Physics of TU Darmstadt wants to change that. His project, ‘When antimatter meets strangeness: a new era for precision hypernuclear physics’ (HYPER), is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for five years with an Advanced Grant totalling €2.9 million.
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Hongna Liu awarded with IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize
2025/06/16
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Picture: TU Darmstadt | Patrick BalPicture: TU Darmstadt | Patrick Bal
Professor Thomas Nilsson becomes first “affiliate professor”
2025/06/16
TU Darmstadt honors renowned Swedish experimental physicist
On June 13, 2025, TU Darmstadt awarded the academic title of “Affiliate Professor” to an internationally renowned scientist for the first time. Professor Dr. Thomas Nilsson, professor at Chalmers University (Sweden) and Scientific Director of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research and FAIR GmbH, is now officially affiliated with the Department of Physics.
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Giacomo Ricigliano defended his dissertation successfully
2025/06/06
Giacomo Ricigliano (SFB 1245, B07) defended his dissertation entitled „Probing the origin of heavy elements in extreme conditions: the message of kilonovae“ successfully. Congratulations.
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Picture: Volker WernerPicture: Volker Werner
Less chaos than expected revealed at HIGS
2025/06/03
At the nearly-monoenergetic, fully-polarized gamma beam at HIGS, the isotope Nd-150 was irradiated at energies up to the particle threshold (approx. 7 MeV). A new mode of the facility for high beam resolution was used. The surprising result: the decays do not follow the so-called Porter-Thomas distribution, but indicate structure in the chaos of the highly-excited nuclear states, which in turn may also have far-reaching implications for the description of astrophysical processes.
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First experimental test of the Ratio Method published
2025/06/02
We have just published in Phys. Rev. Lett. the result of the first experimental test of the Ratio Method to study halo nuclei.
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SFB 1245 at the Physics Center in Bad Honnef
2025/05/26
The annual workshop of SFB 1245 took place from May 5 to 9 in Bad Honnef. The latest physics results in the SFB 1245 and in related fields were discussed in overall 36 presentations, including a few invited speakers.
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First laser spectroscopy of a radioactive isotope in a storage ring
2025/04/28
Our measurement of hydrogen-like Bi-208 has been published in Nature Physics . It is the first time that laser spectroscopy was performed at an accelerator-produced isotope in a storage ring.
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Prof. em. Achim Richter receives Lise Meitner Prize 2024
2025/03/03
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Tim Stetz defended his dissertation successfully
2025/02/10
Tim Stetz (SFB 1245, B02) defended his dissertation entitled „Evolution of isovector-quadrupole valence-shell excitations of heavy vibrational nuclei“ successfully. Congratulations.
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Picture: J, Mai (GSI), PRLPicture: J, Mai (GSI), PRL
New PRL publication on the double-gamma decay in 76Ge
2024/07/17