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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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 ...

2010/11: ASPERA Press Release on Listening to whales with neutrino telescopes adopted by www.earthtimes.org, LeFigaro, The Economist 2010/04: Das Rätsel der rasenden Sterne Wie von einem Katapult abgeschossen, rasen einzelne, superschnelle Sterne aus unserer Galaxie heraus. Für deren Beschleunigung...