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Mu3e magnet arrived at PSI
After almost three years of planning, design and construction, the 31-ton, 2.6 Tesla superconducting magnet for the Mu3e experiment arrived today at PSI. The magnet delivery is an important milestone in the Mu3e experiment at the Laboratory of Particle Physics LTP, which will search for New Physics in muon decays over the next years.
Auf der Suche nach einer neuen Physik
Mit dem Hochintensitäts-Protonenbeschleuniger HIPA erzeugt das Paul Scherrer Institut Elementarteilchen, um zu klären, wie das Universum aufgebaut ist. Mithilfe von Pionen, Myonen und Neutronen führen die Forschenden Experimente durch, um das Standardmodell der Elementarteilchenphysik zu überprüfen.
Anna Sótér appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich
Anna Sótér, currently Lecturer and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at ETH Zurich, formerly member of the PSI Laboratory for Particle Physics and member of the PSI Fellow program, has been appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Low Energy Particle Physics. Anna Sótér’s research is in the area of exotic atoms, where particle physics, atomic physics and quantum optics meet.
LENS Webinar on New Directions in Instrumentation
On June 25 the League of Advanced European Neutron Source LENS organized a second webinar on "New Directions in Instrumentation". Artur Glavic (LIN) gave a presentation on "Neutrons for Magnetic Nanostructures on Surfaces: Beyond the Specular Intensity Wars", which is still available online.
Young Scientist Award 2020
The Young Scientist Award 2020 of the European Magnetism Association (EMA) goes to Claire Donnelly for advances in the experimental characterization of spin textures and their dynamics in three dimensions with X-ray techniques.
Claire Donnelly, a former Ph.D. and postdoc at PSI in the Mesoscopic Systems Group, is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in 2017 from the ETH Zurich for her work on hard X-ray tomography of three-dimensional magnetic structures based at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Following a postdoc at the ETH Zurich, she moved to the University of Cambridge and the Cavendish in January 2019, where she is focusing on the dynamics of three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures.
Her research focuses on three dimensional magnetic systems, which she studies using sophisticated synchorotron X-rays to determine the three-dimensional magnetic configurations, and their dynamic behaviour, at the nanoscale.
Langlebiges pionisches Helium: exotische Materie erstmals experimentell nachgewiesen
Exotische Atome, in denen Elektronen durch andere Teilchen ersetzt werden, ermöglichen tiefe Einblicke in die Quantenwelt. Nach acht Jahren gelang einer internationalen Gruppe von Forschenden an der Pionenquelle des PSI ein schwieriges Experiment: Sie schufen ein künstliches Atom, sogenanntes «pionisches Helium».
Professor Dr. Christian Rüegg neuer Direktor des Paul Scherrer Instituts
Der neue Direktor des Paul Scherrer Instituts tritt heute sein Amt an: Christian Rüegg will die Spitzenstellung der Grossforschungsanlagen des PSI weiter ausbauen und so den Forschungsstandort Schweiz stärken.
Symposium in memory of Jean-Pierre Blaser
Jean-Pierre Blaser (1923-2019) was one of the founders of the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research SIN - one of the two institutions, which merged to the Paul Scherrer Institut in 1988. From 1988-1990 he was the first Director of the Paul Scherrer Institut. On the occasion of his first obit ETH Zurich and PSI organised a symposium to honour the lifetime achievement of this outstanding Swiss physicist.
Dem Rätsel der Materie auf der Spur
Forschende haben an der Quelle für ultrakalte Neutronen des PSI eine Eigenschaft des Neutrons so genau wie noch nie vermessen: sein elektrisches Dipolmoment. Denn bis heute wird nach einer Erklärung gesucht, weshalb es nach dem Urknall mehr Materie als Antimaterie gab.