Year: 2025

Just before Easter, 35 High School students visited ECAP to participate in this years IceCube Masterclass (https://masterclass.icecube.wisc.edu/, https://indico.ecap.work/event/120/). The day started with lectures in particle and astroparticle physics. After lunch the students visited selected ECAP...

This year's "Jugend forscht" regional competition for Middle Franconia was special in more ways than one: on the one hand, the competition celebrated its 60th anniversary, and on the other, the Department of Physics at the FAU was able to host the event for the second time - and once again it was a...

We are happy to host Professor Tim Linden for a 1-year sabbatical at ECAP. Prof. Linden works primarily on the detection of indirect signals from dark matter annihilation in the universe. He is interested in using neutron stars as probes for new physics, has worked extensively on the astrophysic...

Detection with the Deep-Sea Telescope KM3NeT from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea From the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists including astroparticle physicists from the ECAP at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, used the KM3NeT neutr...

The KM3NeT Collaboration has exciting news to report! Please join us Wednesday, 12 February at 4:50 p.m. CET to know more. The webinar will be streamed on the KM3NeT YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlBpkl8?si=qSwkKHynETOZ_xbA ECAP Contact:

The Pierre Auger Observatory, with a size of 3000 km², is the world's largest experiment for studying nature's most energetic particles: ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have unlocked novel insights into the mass composition of these particles, paving t...

We are happy to announce that ECAP researcher Jonas Glombitza has been successfully selected for the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU). Dr. Jonas Glombitza is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk and researches the nature of cos...