Research Training Groups

Faculty 08 is involved in the following DFG Research Training Groups (JGU is (co-)applicant):

Coordinator: JGU
The Graduate School aims to train a new generation of experimental physicists who are not only experts in a specific technology, but also have broad experience in detector physics and a good overview of modern technologies, standards and methods required today.
The research of the RTG will pursue detector developments in three key areas: photon-based detectors, ultra-fast data processing and reconstruction and high performance detectors. All three are essential elements of the next generation of detectors that will be required to answer the fundamental questions posed by modern particle physics.
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Coordinator: JGU
Soft matter is already ubiquitous in our daily life. New developments in medical technology, energy storage, and information technology also exploit soft materials characterized by complex, often nanoscale hierarchical structures. The scientific goal of this research training group is to harvest the potential of interfaces as agents to control the assembly process and the final properties of these materials. There is a need (in academia and industry) to better understand non-equilibrium processes, which we address through combining research with structured training in a small and highly dedicated team.
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Coordinator: Technical University of Darmstadt
The Research Training Group GRK 2128 AccelencE (Accelerator Science and Technology for Energy-Recovery Linacs), a cooperation between the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the TU Darmstadt, the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and the Institute for Theory of Electromagnetic Fields of the TU Darmstadt, focuses on the development and testing of Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs), which are particle accelerators that recover the energy of previously accelerated particles after these have been used for scientific experiments, instead of losing it. This is relevant for achieving the highest beam performance at comparatively low operating costs.
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