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19.04.2024: Ghost particles on the scales

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. ...

13.04.2024: Storage and cooling of thorium ions from radioactive decay

Triply positive charged ions of the isotope Th-229 (Th3+) are of particular interest as the basis for a high-precision optical clock. ...

16.02.2024: In Memoriam: Professor Dr. Jens Volker Kratz (1944 – 2024)

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 ...

13.02.2024: Greetings from the island of enhanced stability: The quest for the limit of the periodic table

Review in Nature Reviews Physics discusses major challenges in the field of superheavy elements and their nuclei and provides an outlook on future developments ...

05.05.2023: 20th TASCA workshop held at GSI and online

Source of the photographic material: C. Düllmann (JGU/GSI/HIM) / G. Otto (GSI) The traditional annual TASCA Workshop on Recoil Separator for Superheavy Element Chemistry & Physics took place on April 25-27. This year’s workshop marked the 20th edition of the workshop series, which started in 2002. ...

30.03.2023: Program for TASCA 23 workshop is now available!

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01.12.2022: TASCA 23 workshop announced

The TASCA workshop will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2023! As in 2022, we will organize the TASCA workshop as a hybrid workshop. ...

11.10.2022: Job Offer "Staff scientist (Nuclear Chemist or Physicist) (all genders) – Tenure Track" (deadline expired)

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15.09.2022: Pushing the boundaries of chemistry: Properties of heaviest element studied so far measured at GSI/FAIR

Superheavy element 114 (flerovium) is a volatile metal An international research team has succeeded in gaining new insights into the chemical properties of the superheavy element flerovium - element 114 - at the accelerator facilities of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt. The measurements show that flerovium is the most volatile metal in the periodic table. Flerovium is thus the heaviest element in the periodic table that has been chemically studied. ...

24.05.2022: Overview article about five decades of element discoveries and chemical investigation published in Radiochimica Acta

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the journal Radiochimica Acta, which was founded by Nobel Laureate Otto Hahn in 1962. ...