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Das Zentrum der Milchstraße: Ein Beschleuniger galaktischer kosmischer Strahlung mit beispielloser Energie

March 18, 2016 Category: News, Press Releases

Seit mehr als 10 Jahren kartographieren die H.E.S.S.-Teleskope in Namibia das Zentrum der Milchstraße in höchstenergetischer Gammastrahlung. Eine detaillierte Analyse neuester H.E.S.S.-Daten, welche die Wissenschaftler am 16. März im Fachjournal Nature veröffentlichten, legt nahe, dass es ihnen gelu...

KM3NeT selected for the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap

March 10, 2016 Category: News

10 March 2016 – Today, at its launch event at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) announced that KM3NeT 2.0 is selected for the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap for Research Infrastructures. The ESFRI Roadmap identifies ...

ANTARES and KM3NeT Collaboration meet at ECAP

February 10, 2016 Category: Uncategorized

The joint ANTARES and KM3NeT Collaboration Meeting was hosted in February 2016 at the ECAP. Over a hundred physicists, engineers and technicians from all over Europe came together to discuss the latest news in neutrino hunting.

Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0

January 27, 2016 Category: Uncategorized

Today, scientists of the KM3NeT Collaboration have announced KM3NeT 2.0, their ambition for the immediate future to further exploit the clear waters of the deep Mediterranean Sea for the detection of cosmic and atmospheric neutrinos. The published Letter of Intent details the science performance as ...

Das ECAP stellt seine Forschung vor

January 1, 2016 Category: News

Wir laden alle interessierten Studierenden zu einer Informationsveranstaltung über Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten ein: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2016, von 12 – 14 Uhr im ECAP-Gebäude, 2. OG. Das Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) ist ein Zusammenschluss mehrerer Lehrstühle rund um die The...

News 2015

December 31, 2015 Category: News

2015/12: KM3NeT DU-2 in operation On 3rd of December, 2015, the first detection unit for KM3NeT has been successfully installed. Early this morning, the 700 m long unit - compactly rolled on a spherical launching frame - arrived by ship at the installation site 100 km off-shore Sicily, Italy. There ...

News 2014

December 31, 2014 Category: News

2014/12: ECAP becomes a member of nEXO ECAP is now member of the nEXO-collaboration (next Enriched Xenon Observatory), which develops a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment of the next generation with a nuclide mass on the ton scale. The nEXO-experiment will consist of a time-projection chambe...

News 2013

December 31, 2013 Category: News

2013/10: Articles on the "Astroteilchenschule 2013" Bärnfelser Astrophysiker treffen sich seit 10 Jahren (inFranken.de) Die Geheimnisse des Universums (BR) 2013/01: Waiting for Dark Matter to light up Self-annihilation of dark matter particles in space can lead to emission of gamma rays with ...

News 2012

December 31, 2012 Category: News

2012/07: Largest ever Cherenkov telescope sees first light On 26 July 2012, the H.E.S.S. II telescope started operation in Namibia. Dedicated to observing the most violent and extreme phenomena of the Universe in very high energy gamma-rays, H.E.S.S. II is the largest Cherenkov telescope ever built,...

News 2011

December 31, 2011 Category: News

2011/12: ECAP ist größter universitärer Partner in der "Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics" Mit rund zehn Millionen Euro fördert die Helmholtz-Gesellschaft in den kommenden fünf Jahren eine neue Helmholtz-Allianz für Astroteilchenphysik. Maßgeblich an dem Forschungsverbund beteiligt sind ...