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The Sonderforschungsbereich 1258 (Collaborative Research Center, CRC1258), Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, has been granted funding by the Deutsche Forschungegemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation) for its third funding period, running from 2025 to 2028.

The researchers of the ALICE collaboration present the first exploration of the strong interaction within a system of three nucleons. This was achieved by measuring the relative velocities between pairs of protons and deuterons produced in proton-proton collisions at the ALICE detector at the LHC,…

The scientists of the GERDA collaboration have published the most precise determination of the 76Ge two-neutrino double-beta decay half-life to date and one of the most precise measurements of a double beta decay process at all. The publication is part of the final results of the GERDA experiment…

Hans Niederhausen, IceCube collaborator and postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University (MSU), has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Shakti P. Duggal Award presented by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the Milky Way. The analysis of ten years of observation data using machine learning methods led to the success for which Elisa Resconi's group at the Technical University of…

Elisa Resconi, who initiated the project for a new high-energy astrophysical neutrino detector in the Pacific Ocean, was elected the first spokesperson of the P-ONE collaboration. The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Telescope is a proposed cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope to be deployed off the coast…

Irene Tamborra, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Mercator Fellow of the SFB1258, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project ANET to solve the riddle of how neutrinos affect the physics of spectacular cosmic fireworks in the death of massive stars as core-collapse supernova…

How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as yet it has not been possible to prove directly that dark matter exists. A research team including Technical University of Munich (TUM) scientists has now measured for the…

For over ten years the IceCube Observatory in the Antarctic has been monitoring the light traces of extragalactic neutrinos. While evaluating the observatory's data, an international research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) discovered a high-energy neutrino radiation source in…

Neutrinos occupy a key position in particle physics and in cosmology: without measuring their mass, our understanding of the universe will remain incomplete. The world's leading experiment to determine the neutrino mass, the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) is now led by two new…