News & Dates
Katharina Hermainski (photo below, third from left), PhD student in our group, is one of the winners of the poster prizes at the "Helmholtz Matter and the Universe Days 2024”. These took place from December 12 to 13, 2024 at DESY in Hamburg. ...
In 2025 the traditional TASCA workshop on “Recoil Separator for Superheavy Element Chemistry & Physics” will take place again; it will be held in presence. ...
Expansion of the nuclear charge radius increases with the number of neutrons added to the nucleus ...
Dominik Dietzel from our group has won the first poster prize at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the German Chemical Society‘s Division of Nuclear Chemistry held on November 05-07 in Karlsruhe, Germany for his poster on "Volatility and Reactivity of Astatine on Quartz“. ...
Experiments at GSI/FAIR succeed in determining properties of moscovium and nihonium. An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the artificially produced superheavy elements moscovium and nihonium (elements 115 and 113). ...
With great respect and deep sadness, we bid farewell to our friend and former colleague in the nuclear chemistry at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Dr. Gerhard Wirth (1940-2024). Photo: private ...
What is the mass of a neutrino at rest? A team led by the department of Klaus Blaum, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (MIPK), with the participation of Christoph Düllmann's working group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has now made an important contribution to the “weighing” of neutrinos as part of the international ECHo collaboration. ...
Triply positive charged ions of the isotope Th-229 (Th3+) are of particular interest as the basis for a high-precision optical clock. ...
On 11 February 2024 Prof. Dr. Jens Volker Kratz passed away at the age of 79. He was a distinguished nuclear chemist, best known for his work in the field of the heaviest elements and was a former leader of our research group at GSI Darmstadt and at JGU Mainz. Photo: B. Kuczewski / private ...
Review in Nature Reviews Physics discusses major challenges in the field of superheavy elements and their nuclei and provides an outlook on future developments ...