Institute for Nuclear Physics
on the web pages of the Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP) at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
We study and teach in the areas of nuclear structure physics, nuclear astrophysics, relativistic heavy-ion physics, plasma physics, astroparticle physics, accelerator physics and related fields in experimental and theoretical groups.
The IKP operates the Superconducting Darmstadt Linear Accelerator (S-DALINAC), various detector and targer laboratories as well as a . Theory Center
The Institute for Nuclear Physics is an essential participant in the research field (Matter and Materials) of the Technical University of Darmstadt. It is an institute within the M+M beside the Department of Physics and the Institute for Applied Physics. Institute for Physics of Condensed Matter
Experimentalists and theoreticians work closely together on a number of scientific topics.
Less chaos than expected revealed at HIGS
June 03, 2025
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.
First experimental test of the Ratio Method published
June 02, 2025
We have just published in Phys. Rev. Lett. the result of the first experimental test of the Ratio Method to study halo nuclei.