30 July 2025
DESY welcomes 100 summer students from around the world
A total of 100 summer students from 33 countries have arrived at the DESY sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen and have started their packed summer program. Students from Ukraine, Spain, and Italy are particularly well represented. The young people will spend the coming weeks working on ...
24 July 2025
Axion search: crucial progress in the MADMAX experiment
A mysterious particle called axion has the potential to solve two of the most pressing open questions in particle physics: dark matter could be composed of axions, and axions could resolve a mystery in our understanding of the strong nuclear force. The international research ...
10 July 2025
Do top quarks combine for a fleeting moment to form a new particle called toponium?
When researchers from DESY and the University of Hamburg noticed something new in the data from the CMS experiment at CERN's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, last year (see
09 July 2025
Geneva, Hamburg and Bonn, 09 July 2025. Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition that was initiated by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and is open to secondary school ...
