September, 19-21 2024
The 70th anniversary of the founding of the international research center CERN was celebrated at KIT with a three-day program.
read moreAugust, 2024
The quality of silicon strip sensors, which are to be used in the CMS experiment in a few years, was tested at ETP.
read moreJune 25, 2024
ZAG Zyklotron AG, located on Campus North of KIT, operates a proton cyclotron that is used to irradiate detector elements for the CMS experiment.
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June 25, 2024
In recognition of their outstanding achievements, Lea Stockmeier and Adelina Lintuluoto, doctoral researchers at the ETP, have been awarded the CMS Collaboration Award 2023.
read moreJune 19-20, 2024
Scientists from MPP and KIT met in Karlsruhe to discuss the latest results and future upgrades of the FPGA-based real-time algorithms for the Belle II experiment.
read moreJune 17, 2024
Prof. Oliver Kraft, Vice President Research and Acting President of KIT, inaugurated the clean room of the Institute of Experimental Particle Physics and the Institute for Astroparticle Physics in a ceremony.
read moreApril 18-20, 2024
Numerous students and high-school students from Karlsruhe area were given the unique opportunity to spend three days at CERN, where they visited the CMS experiment.
read moreApril 01, 2024
ETP PostDoc Sally Stefkova has been appointed co-convenor of the "Electroweak Penguin" physics group. The group works with more than 60 physicists on over 20 analyses.
read moreMarch 04 - 08, 2024
More than 1000 particle physicists met at KIT to discuss current topics in their field. The DPG working group on equal opportunities and the young DPG also participated in the conference program.
read moreFebruary 21, 2024
A scientific meeting was held at the ETP, attended by theoretical and experimental physicists from KIT and the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg.
read moreFebruary 20, 2024
Belle II has set itself the goal of discovering new physical phenomena that could be the key to the mystery of the origin of the universe.
read moreFebruary 13, 2024
With a new method, scientists involving ETP have demonstrated a way to reinterpret standard model measurements in alternative models.
read moreFebruary 01 - 03, 2024
In the semester just ending, students had the opportunity to see the detectors discussed and described in the lectures live on site.
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December 2023
Benedikt Maier, Junior Group Leader at ETP, has successfully raised KCETA funding to set up a new computing infrastructure.
read moreDecember, 2023
In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Jan van der Linden will be awarded the 2022/2023 edition of the KIT Doctoral Award.
read moreNovember, 2023
For the first time, a charged B meson has been detected with the Belle II experiment that decays into a kaon, a neutrino and an antineutrino.
read moreNovember, 2023
With the "Science&Art@School in Karlsruhe" program, KIT aims to get young people interested in complex topics through an interdisciplinary combination of art and science.
read moreNovember, 2023
Artur Monsch has been awarded a PhD scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg to support excellent young scientists - congratulations!
read moreOctober/November 2023
As part of the "Our Universe" lecture series, KCETA invited interested members of the public to lecture evenings at the Natural History Museum.
read moreOctober 09 - 13, 2023
Design a detector and use AI to analyse its signals - that is the challenge students rose to in this first-ever ETP Blockpraktikum.
read moreOctober 12, 2023
A team of scientists from KIT and University Heidelberg have developed a new type of detector, a variant of magnetic microcalorimeters (MMCs).
read moreOctober 04 - 06, 2023
The ETP CMS group convened in Hamburg for an intensive three-day meeting with the other German CMS groups.
read moreOctober 02, 2023
On this year's bridge day, the ETP team went hiking in and around the picturesque landscape of Bad Herrenalb.
read moreSeptember 25 - 27, 2023
More than 80 researchers from all German universities and research institutes that are members of the Belle II experiment met at KIT.
read moreSeptember 19, 2023
Dr. Benedikt Maier from ETP was awarded the Young Researcher Prize of the CMS Collaboration.
read moreAugust 29, 2023
Prof. Klute gave a public lecture on the secrets of our universe in the Magnus House of the DPG in Berlin as a contribution to the Science Year.
read moreAugust 22, 2023
A team from ETP performed the measurement of the cross section of Z boson production at the new LHC center-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV at the CMS experiment.
read moreAugust 03, 2023
The Pixel Vertex Detector (PXD) forms the innermost detector layer of the Belle II experiment. It has now been installed at its destination, the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan.
read moreAugust 02, 2023
Prof. Dr. Klute clarified the reasons for the current standstill of the LHC in the German radio program SWR2 Impuls.
read moreAugust 02, 2023
KIT researchers have developed a new method to study the properties of a hypothetical particle that could provide information about dark matter and other phenomena.
read moreAugust 01, 2023
Scientists from the LUXE collaboration have published a Technical Design Report that presents a detailed description of their proposed experiment.
read moreJuly 20 - 22, 2023
July 14, 2023
A team of researchers from the KIT have developed a novel method for building graphs on FPGAs for machine learning applications in particle physics experiments in real time
read moreJuly 1, 2023
At the highly anticipated 10 km run of the KIT Championship, several professors, postdocs, and doctoral students from ETP participated.
read moreJuly 29, 2023
PhD students from ETP visited the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Leinfelden to present a CMS Masterclass.
read moreJune 9, 2023
We hosted a symposium featuring renowned speakers from the field of particle physics to honor the illustrious career of Prof. Thomas Mueller for his 70th birthday.
read moreJune 7, 2023
A new artificial intelligence has been developed at ETP that can determine the energies of photons in the Belle II experiment with unprecedented accuracy.
read moreJune 5, 2023
For the first time, scientists have used the Belle II experiment at Japan's KEK Research Center to search for long-lived particles.
read moreMay 31, 2023
ETP successfully delivered the first of 26 titanium wedges to facilitate the mounting of the High-Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) detector in CMS.
read moreMay 25, 2023
A team of experimental and theoretical physicists from KIT and DESY have summarised the status of the phenomenology and of experimental searches for both light and heavy dark Higgs bosons in a review.
read moreMay 8 - 12, 2023
From High-Performance Computing to Artificial Intelligence: Members of the ETP and SCC participated in the "International Conference on Computing in High Energy And Nuclear Physics" (CHEP).
read moreApril 22/23, 2023
Prof. Torben Ferber from ETP gave a talk on dark matter at the exhibition "Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter." at ZKM.
read moreApril 5, 2023
"Our Universe" is the title of the Science Year 2023 of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Insights into different facets of this theme were provided by KIT's Annual Celebration 2023.
read moreMarch 19, 2023
In the context of the 83th Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society the 1st Datathon of the Working Group on Physics, Modern IT and Artificial Intelligence (AKPIK) was held.
read moreMarch 7, 2023
Scientists from ETP discussed the current status of their research with the interested audience at science Tuesday in the Triangel Open Space.
read moreFebruary 16, 2023
On Thursday February 16 - Weiberfastnacht, the Institute of Experimental Particle Physics experienced an unexpected and exciting takeover as part of a long-standing carnival tradition.
read moreJanuary 27, 2023
The KIT Belle II group visited the SCC campus north last week. They got a tour through the high-performance computing cluster HoreKa (see picture) and the Grid computing center GridKa.
read moreJanuary 19/20, 2023
Together with almost 50 students and pupils, ETP visited the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN).
read moreJanuary 9, 2023
The latest version of the CERN Courier features an article by ETP's Dr. Frank Hartmann, coordinator of the CMS Phase-II upgrade, on this very topic.
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