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MPP director Giulia Zanderighi in her office (Photo: Barbara Wankerl/MPP)

Giulia Zanderighi receives Liesel Beckmann Professorship

Giulia Zanderighi, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics is now Liesel Beckmann Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). With this professorship, TUM honors outstanding female scientists whose careers serve as role models for…

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Giulia Zanderighi, director of the department "Novel computational techniques in particle physics" (Photo: A. Griesch/MPP)

Top quark: Searching for traces at the LHC with unprecedented precision

Interview with Giulia Zanderighi

The top quark is the heaviest of all elementary particles found in nature. The mass of this point-like particle corresponds to that of the comparatively of the much larger gold atom. One of the production sites for top quarks is the Large Hadron…

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Visitors meet elementary particles – online

Saturday, June 26, 2021: Open day at the Max Planck Institute for Physics

On June 26, the Max Planck Institute for Physics will be hosting another open day. The Institute is virtually opening its doors and offering the general public the opportunity to experience experiments and lectures live, to visit laboratories and…

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Proton bunches in sync: A train of short proton bunches travels through the plasma field, forming a wave on which electrons can be accelerated. (Image: AWAKE)

AWAKE brings proton bunches into sync

The future of particle acceleration has begun. AWAKE is a promising concept for a completely new method with which particles can be accelerated even over short distances. The basis for this is a plasma wave that accelerates electrons and thus brings…

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Observation of the black hole in M87: The MAGIC telescopes provided important data in the highest range of the gamma-ray spectrum (Photo: R. Wagner/MAGIC Collaboration)

Many eyes see more: Black hole under observation

Messier M87 is 55 million light years away from Earth. As is the case for probably all galaxies, there is a huge black hole in its center. In 2017, a host of telescopes observed the object over the entire energy spectrum. The spectacular result of…

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