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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.
A la recherche d’une nouvelle physique
L’accélérateur de protons à haute intensité HIPA permet à l’Institut Paul Scherrer PSI de produire des particules élémentaires pour élucider la structure de notre univers. Les chercheurs utilisent des pions, des muons et des neutrons pour vérifier la validité du modèle standard de la physique des particules.
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.
De l’hélium pionique avec une longue durée de vie: première preuve expérimentale de l’existence d’une matière exotique
Les atomes exotiques, où des électrons ont été remplacés par d’autres particules, permettent de scruter en profondeur l’univers quantique. Au terme de huit ans de travail, une équipe internationale de chercheurs a réussi une expérience difficile à la source de pions du PSI: créer un atome artificiel appelé «hélium pionique».
Le professeur Christian Rüegg est le nouveau directeur de l’Institut Paul Scherrer
Le nouveau directeur de l'Institut Paul Scherrer entre en fonction aujourd'hui: Christian Rüegg veut continuer à développer la position de leader des grandes installations de recherche du PSI et ainsi renforcer la Suisse en tant que site de recherche.
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.
Sur la piste de l’énigme de la matière
A la source de neutrons ultra-froids du PSI, des chercheurs ont mesuré une propriété du neutron avec une précision inégalée à ce jour: son moment dipolaire électrique. Aujourd’hui encore, on cherche en effet à comprendre pourquoi il est apparu plus de matière que d’antimatière après le Big Bang.