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Success reported from the AWAKE project: Researchers have succeeded for the first time in generating a wave-shaped plasma field with the aid of a proton beam – an approach which paves the way for a completely new type of particle accelerator. In the…

The ATLAS detector is currently undergoing a substantial upgrade: The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) has developed novel drift-tube chambers to measure muon tracks. The Institute will supply 12 of these muon chambers to CERN, where they are…

The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is opening up a new research field. A workshop from November 21 - 22, 2016 has marked the start of activities for an innovative axion experiment. Axions are still only purely hypothetical particles. Their…

Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole in the center of a galaxy. This was followed by a burst of…

The KATRIN experiment recently celebrated its “first light”. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has announced that the detector has registered, for the first time, electrons that have initially flown through the 70-meter-long beamline. As the most…

Today, the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is set to relaunch its website. For the relaunch, the Institute website has been provided with a new, attractive layout designed for mobile devices; its content has also been revised for the most…