Students from Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Türkiye and the USA win the 12th edition of Beamline for Schools1
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 pupils from all around the world. Participants are invited to submit a proposal for a physics experiment to be undertaken at the beamline of a particle accelerator, either at CERN or at one of the partner institutes: DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany) and ELSA (Elektronen-Stretcher-Anlage of the University of Bonn, Germany). In 2025, a record number of five winning teams have been chosen, based on both the scientific merit of their proposals and the communication merit of their submission video.
Three clusters of excellence for Physics and Astronomy in Bonn2
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Bonn will be represented in three Clusters of Excellence in the future - an impressive success that underlines the breadth and international visibility of its research. The University of Bonn was successful with a total of eight approved clusters in the nationwide Excellence Strategy and is therefore once again one of the absolute leaders in the German science system.
Innovative New Detector to Hunt for Neutrinos3
Technology is being pushed to its very limits. The upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN slated for the next few years will increase data transfer rates beyond what the current neutrino detector for the FASER experiment can cope with, requiring it to be replaced by a new kind of more powerful detector. This is a task that physicist Professor Matthias Schott from the University of Bonn will be tackling with the help of €1 million in Reinhart Koselleck funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Carnival party of the Physics Institutes4
On Weiberfastnacht, after a 10-year break, the Physics Institutes once again held a carnival party in the foyer of the Wolfgang-Paul-Hörsaal.
Trip to CERN5
From Monday, January 27 to Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 31 employees from the various workshops, the FTD and the Institute's administration traveled to CERN together. The aim of the excursion was to give non-scientific staff an insight into the experiments at CERN in which the Physikalisches Institut is involved.
Simon Stellmer receives ERC Proof of Concept Grant6
Professor Simon Stellmer, a member of the Cluster of Excellence ML4Q, receives a ‘Proof of Concept Grant’ from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project „GyroRevolutionPlus“. With the funding of €150,000 for up to 18 months, the physicist will continue to prepare his research results from previous ERC projects for commercial application. This is the second time that Professor Stellmer has been successful in this funding program after having received a grant for his previous project ‘GyroRevolution’ in 2023. The precision instruments he and his team are developing can be used to improve natural disaster early warning systems.
Christmas Physics Show 20247
Physics professor Scrooginger doesn't think highly of other people: Colleagues are ungrateful, PhD students are lazy and students are dumb. So what should Scrooginger think of all the ghosts who appear just before Christmas, along with physics experiments?
The show “Eine physikalische Weihnachtsgeschichte” (“A Physics Christmas Carol”) will be performed on 19.12.2024 at 5 pm in the Wolfgang-Paul lecture hall.
First Observation of Top Quarks in Heavy-Ion collisions8
The ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported the first observation of top quarks in collisions between lead ions in a talk held at CERN last week. Members of the research group of Prof. Dr. Matthias Schott from the Physikalisches Institut at the University of Bonn have been contributing to this new study. The observation of top-quark pairs represents a significant step forward in heavy-ion collision physics, paving the way for new measurements of the quark–gluon plasma that is created in these collisions and delivering fresh insights into the nature of the strong force that binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together.
Links
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/jugendliche-aus-belgien-kanada-mexiko-der-tuerkei-und-den-usa-gewinnen-die-12-ausgabe-von-beamline-for-schools
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/three-clusters-of-excellence-for-physics-and-astronomy-in-bonn
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/innovative-new-detector-to-hunt-for-neutrinos
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/karnevalsfeier-der-physikalischen-institute
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/cern-fahrt
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/simon-stellmer-erhaelt-erc-proof-of-concept-grant
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/weihnachtsphysikshow-2024
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news/first-observation-of-top-quarks-in-heavy-ion-collisions
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=8
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=16
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=24
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=32
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=40
- https://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/en/news?set_language=en&b_start:int=48