At the S-DALINAC, Norbert Pietralla's team has succeeded for the first time in demonstrating the reuse of previously used energy in a two-fold energy recovery mode.

Since November 2022, the first cohort of the Ira Rischowski-Program is finally complete: Three young women took up their Master studies in Physics at TU Darmstadt with the help of our scholarship.

Virtual journey to distant galaxies on 27 December 2022

Between the years, the Hessian Cluster Project ELEMENTS together with the TU Darmstadt invites you again to a very special kind of walk: We will explore the universe in a digital live stream on Tuesday, 27 December 2022, starting at 7:30 pm!

Research team for the first time observed a neutral nucleus – the Tetra Neutron

An international research team with leading participation by TU Darmstadt succeeded for the first time to create an isolated four-neutron system with low relative energy in a volume corresponding to that of an atomic nucleus. The scientists have overcome the experimental challenge by employing a new method using a 8He beam and a fast high-energy reaction.

Combining heavy-ion experiments, astrophysical observations, and nuclear theory

An international research team has for the first time combined data from heavy-ion experiments, gravitational wave measurements and other astronomical observations using advanced theoretical modelling to more precisely constrain the properties of nuclear matter as it can be found in the interior of neutron stars. The results were published in the journal “Nature”.

Laudator: “Your research makes space shine brighter”

Professor Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) on 13 May 2022, which comes with prize money of 2.5 million euros. The award is the most important and most highly endowed German research prize. Martínez-Pinedo received the prize for his outstanding work in the realm where astro-, nuclear and neutrino physics meet. He researches and teaches at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at TU Darmstadt and at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.

Study suggests errors in the interpretation of older measurements

A few years ago, a new measurement method showed that protons are probably smaller than assumed since the 1990s. Some researchers even believed that the standard model of particle physics would have to be changed. Physicists at the universities of Darmstadt and Bonn have now recalculated using a new method.

Team with participation of TU Darmstadt studies exotic nickel isotopes

An international research project involving nuclear physicists from TU Darmstadt has used the modern possibilities of radioactive isotope production to determine the charge radii along a series of short-lived nickel isotopes for the first time. This shows that the latest nuclear theories can predict the radii well. The results have now been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.