06 December 2024
Important detector component for CERN experiment is now in Hamburg
The morning of 27 November was exciting for the ATLAS team at DESY. They reached a major milestone in the construction of an endcap for the new silicon strip detector for the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva. The basic mechanical structure of the endcap (the “skeleton”), ...
04 December 2024
ERC Starting Grant for Aditya Pathak
DESY theorist Aditya Pathak has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) ― one of the most coveted European research grants for early-career researchers – for his research project TOPMASS. Starting in September 2025, Pathak will lead a group ...
14 November 2024
Katharina Behr wins Hertha Sponer Prize
DESY scientist Katharina Behr and leader of a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at DESY receives the Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Physics Society (DPG) for her outstanding experimental contributions to the search for an extended Higgs sector through decays of heavy Higgs ...
07 November 2024
Bjørn H. Wiik Prize 2024 goes to Ludovica Aperio Bella
She searches for the unknown, on her way to the next big discovery, with immense precision and boundless enthusiasm: Ludovica Aperio Bella, particle physicist in DESY's ATLAS group since 2020. "My focus is on analysing the data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN," says the ...
