2023
13.12.2023: Matthias Neubert named Erwin Schrödinger Visiting Scientist 2024

Awarded for outstanding contributions to the field of theoretical elementary particle physics with a visiting professorship in Vienna
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11.12.2023: Searching for axions with the ATLAS detector

Latest measurements provide valuable information on novel particles that could explain the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon / Breaking new experimental ground
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05.12.2023: Reducing the energy consumption of software: Sebastian Erdweg receives an ERC Consolidator Grant

Incremental computations can react to changes in data instantly / Large potential for energy savings
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31.10.2023: Is the jet stream changing?

Researchers at Mainz University are investigating the jet stream to assess how its decadal variations could affect the occurrence of weather extremes in Europe
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16.10.2023: PHILEAS campaign successfully completed

HALO research aircraft has provided valuable contributions to research into the effects on the climate of the Asian Summer Monsoon and the wildfires in Canada
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11.10.2023: Powerful magnets for MAGIX

Core components for the upcoming MESA experiment MAGIX have arrived in Mainz
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06.10.2023: Calculation of the proton radius significantly improved

Theoretical physicists at the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence present new comprehensive lattice calculations
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11.09.2023: Magnetic whirls pave the way for energy-efficient computing

Researchers of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Konstanz as well as of Tohoku University in Japan have been able to increase the diffusion of magnetic whirls, so called skyrmions, by a factor of ten
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07.09.2023: On the track of elusive neutrinos

Project 8 experiment reaches important milestone to measure neutrino mass
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05.09.2023: Made in Germany, big in Japan: Pixel Vertex detector installed in Belle II experiment

Concettina Sfienti's research group at the JGU Institute of Nuclear Physics involved in design and construction
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30.08.2023: How to write in water?

Researchers at Mainz University, TU Darmstadt, and Wuhan University overcome fundamental obstacles for writing and drawing lines, letters, and complex patterns within the bulk of a liquid
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11.08.2023: Muon g-2 collaboration doubles precision with latest measurement

Uncharted territory explored in search of new physics
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04.08.2023: Up, up, and away with PHILEAS

HALO research aircraft to analyze the transport of greenhouses gases and aerosols over the Pacific
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20.07.2023: Marvin Schnubel receives Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

New theoretical model to help in the search for new physics
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01.06.2023: Thorium-229: A new approach to investigation opens up a wide range of possibilities

International research team reveals in Physical Review Research how the first nuclear transition can be excited with lasers in the visible wavelength range
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25.05.2023: Material design by means of defect engineering: German Research Foundation approves new Collaborative Research Center at Mainz University

DFG to fund new CRC investigating options for manipulating defects in soft matter
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25.05.2023: German Research Foundation approves three funding applications for Collaborative Research Centers at Mainz University

DFG funding boosts top-level research areas of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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24.04.2023: New electron scattering experiment designed for the excitation of the helium nucleus raises fundamental questions about our current understanding of nuclear forces

Theoretical predictions and new experimental data on 4He, measured with great accuracy, diverge significantly from each other
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03.04.2023: New international Master’s degree program will provide comprehensive knowledge and skills in the fields of soft matter and soft materials

Rhine-Main Universities Mainz and Darmstadt jointly offer new research-focused Soft Matter and Materials degree course program with increasing practical components starting in the coming winter semester
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31.03.2023: Second ERC Advanced Grant for Matthias Neubert

Novel theoretical predictions to advance the search for new physics at the LHC / Funding worth EUR 2.5 million
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23.03.2023: Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

An improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics
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23.03.2023: First WIMP search results from the XENONnT experiment

PhD student Daniel Wenz from Mainz University presents data at a seminar at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy
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22.03.2023: First neutrinos made by particle collider detected

Discovery promises to help physicists understand the nature of the universe's most abundant particle
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21.03.2023: New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions

Mainz team of scientists finds a way to evaluate highly complex Feynman integrals
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16.03.2023: Rhineland-Palatinate’s Minister of Science Clemens Hoch inaugurates new high-performance computer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

A milestone of national collaboration
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07.02.2023: First Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow

Chemistry professor at New York University receives new research prize worth EUR 100,000 / Future collaboration with the team of Dmitry Budker at Mainz University
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01.02.2023: Amplified search for new forces

Special setup uses polarized rubidium and xenon as transmitter and receiver system for exotic fields
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23.01.2023: A new model for dark matter

Phase transition in the early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter
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