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.

After more then one tonne of equipment, that was shipped to Japan earlier this year, was unpacked and put back together.

After years of developments and testing it has arrived in Tokyo.

The liquid hydrogen target, which was developed and build by TransMIT in Gießen has arrived in Tokio/Japan to be used for experiments at RIKEN.

The award distinguishes outstanding thesis work performed in the context of radioactive beam experiments.