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Research with Neutrons and Muons (NUM)

The NUM division performs world-class research with neutrons and muons to explore and understand matter and materials. At PSI the NUM division is one of the five PSI research divisions and operates and develops the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ, the Ultra-cold Neutron Source UCN, the Swiss Muon Source SμS and the facilities for particle physics CHRISP.

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8 September 2023
SwissSkills Medal winners

PSI medal winners at SwissSkills Championships 2023

At the recent SwissSkills Championships 2023 for apprentices in Sindex/BE Melvin Deubelbeiss and Andrin Kästli from the electronics apprenticeship group in NUM/LTP have won two medals: Andrin became third, won a bronze medal and Melvin even won the championship and was honored by the gold medal. 

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22 August 2023
installation ESTIA

Swiss precision optics in Sweden

PSI has finalized the precision Selene neutron optics for the ESTIA instrument. The complex state-of-the-art guide was installed at the European Spallation Source as a Swiss in-kind delivery.

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2 August 2023
Pfeilspitze

Bronze Age arrowhead is made of meteoritic iron

Miscellaneous Research with muons

With the help of muons, PSI researchers were able to determine the origin of the material used for an arrowhead.

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10 July 2023
Microgele

Mystery of microgels solved

Media Releases Research Using Neutrons Fundamentals of Nature

Researchers at PSI and the University of Barcelona can explain the strange shrinking of microgels experimentally.

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19 June 2023
Stefan Ritt

Shea Distinguished Member Award of IEEE NPSS to Stefan Ritt

The Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society of IEEE acknowledges the outstanding contributions of Dr. Stefan Ritt in terms of technological developments and services to the NPSS community with the 2023 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award. 

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16 May 2023
Marino Missiroli

Marino Missiroli elected Trigger Coordinator of the CMS experiment at CERN

Marino Missiroli, a postdoctoral researcher in the High-Energy Particle Physics group of the Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP) in NUM, will join the management team of the CMS experiment at CERN as Trigger Co-Coordinator in September 2023.

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10 May 2023
Laura Heyderman

Laura Heyderman elected Royal Society Fellow (FRS)

Laura’s nomination recognises almost 30 years of research into magnetic materials and magnetism on the nanoscale.

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5 April 2023
Artist’s impression of the JUICE mission which will explore the Jupiter system.

Jupiter mission to explore conditions conducive to life

Media Releases Miscellaneous Future Technologies Particle physics

Ganymede, Callisto and Europa: Jupiter’s icy moons are the destination of the upcoming ESA mission. On board: a high-tech detector developed by PSI.

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Head of Division NUM
Dr. Alex Amato a.i.
Telephone: +41 56 310 32 32
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Renate Bercher
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