03 April 2024
The CMS experiment at CERN measures a crucial parameter of the Standard Model
At the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference last week, the CMS collaboration presented a measurement of the effective leptonic electroweak mixing angle. The result is the most precise measurement of its kind performed at a hadron ...
28 March 2024
DESY and Helmut Schmidt University expand their collaboration
DESY and Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU/UniBw H) want to expand their strategic and operational cooperation. This was agreed by DESY CEO Helmut Dosch and the President of HSU/UniBw H, Klaus Beckmann, in a cooperation agreement, ...
07 March 2024
Kerstin Tackmann appointed physics coordinator of the ATLAS Collaboration
The international ATLAS collaboration at CERN has recently elected Kerstin Tackmann, Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor at Universität Hamburg, as its next Physics Coordinator. Physics coordination is a key task in the collaboration and DESY is one of the few institutes to ...
28 February 2024
One hundred years of living physics history
A life marked by scientific milestones, major decisions, ever larger accelerators and a great deal of scientific diplomacy: Herwig Schopper will be 100 years old on 28 February and will be honoured at a festive symposium at CERN on 1 March. DESY, which he headed as Chairman of ...
02 February 2024
European Research Council grant for Priscilla Pani
Priscilla Pani, a scientist in the ATLAS group at DESY, has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant for a new method of searching for new particles. She will use the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva to pick up hints of new light ...
