Pressemitteilungen

The CRESST experiment is continuing its search for dark matter. A few weeks ago, the detector reached its operating temperature of around -273 degrees Celsius, i.e. close to absolute zero. For the new measurement started in September, the experiment…

On September 19, 2016, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) concluded negotiations with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) to host CTA’s northern hemisphere array at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La…

Experimental neutrino physics – this is the main topic of a new Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. The Group will is led by Susanne Mertens, who has previously worked on the KATRIN and the Majorana experiments at the Karlsruhe…

Is the neutrino its own antiparticle? How large a mass do neutrinos have? Scientists working on the GERDA experiment want to find answers to these questions. The first results of the second measurement phase, which began in December, were recently…