News from ETP

Belle II

The new CAT Finder algorithm uses artificial intelligence to detect tracks in the central drift chamber of the Belle II experiment.

Belle II

With KIT participation, a new method has been developed and published that enables more precise analyses of semileptonic B-meson decays.

Markus Klute

Around 200 researchers from all over the world met in Paris to discuss progress on future e+e-Colliders.

CMS

Around 120 researchers from German CMS groups met in Aachen for the annual FSP meeting.

A. Bramsiepe / KIT

The 70th anniversary of the founding of the international research center CERN was celebrated at KIT with a three-day program.

KIT

The quality of silicon strip sensors, which are to be used in the CMS experiment in a few years, was tested at ETP.

2024 CERN

ZAG Zyklotron AG, located on Campus North of KIT, operates a proton cyclotron that is used to irradiate detector elements for the CMS experiment.

2024 CERN

In recognition of their outstanding achievements, Lea Stockmeier and Adelina Lintuluoto, doctoral researchers at the ETP, have been awarded the CMS Collaboration Award 2023.

Belle II Deutschland

Scientists from MPP and KIT met in Karlsruhe to discuss the latest results and future upgrades of the FPGA-based real-time algorithms for the Belle II experiment.

Prof. Oliver Kraft, Vice President Research and Acting President of KIT, inaugurated the clean room of the Institute of Experimental Particle Physics and the Institute for Astroparticle Physics in a ceremony.

KIT

Numerous students and high-school students from Karlsruhe area were given the unique opportunity to spend three days at CERN, where they visited the CMS experiment.

Anselm Baur

ETP PostDoc Sally Stefkova has been appointed co-convenor of the "Electroweak Penguin" physics group. The group works with more than 60 physicists on over 20 analyses.

KIT / Daryoush Djavadi

More than 1000 particle physicists met at KIT to discuss current topics in their field. The DPG working group on equal opportunities and the young DPG also participated in the conference program.

DELight

A scientific meeting was held at the ETP, attended by theoretical and experimental physicists from KIT and the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg.

Belle II, KEK

Belle II has set itself the goal of discovering new physical phenomena that could be the key to the mystery of the origin of the universe.

arxiv

With a new method, scientists involving ETP have demonstrated a way to reinterpret standard model measurements in alternative models.

Torben Ferber

In the semester just ending, students had the opportunity to see the detectors discussed and described in the lectures live on site.

KIT

Benedikt Maier, Junior Group Leader at ETP, has successfully raised KCETA funding to set up a new computing infrastructure.

Dietmar van der Linden

In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Jan van der Linden will be awarded the 2022/2023 edition of the KIT Doctoral Award.

arXiv

For the first time, a charged B meson has been detected with the Belle II experiment that decays into a kaon, a neutrino and an antineutrino.

Hartmut Aichert

With the "Science&Art@School in Karlsruhe" program, KIT aims to get young people interested in complex topics through an interdisciplinary combination of art and science.

Markus Klute

Artur Monsch has been awarded a PhD scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg to support excellent young scientists - congratulations!

KCETA

As part of the "Our Universe" lecture series, KCETA invited interested members of the public to lecture evenings at the Natural History Museum.

Artur Monsch

Design a detector and use AI to analyse its signals - that is the challenge students rose to in this first-ever ETP Blockpraktikum.

arxiv

A team of scientists from KIT and University Heidelberg have developed a new type of detector, a variant of magnetic microcalorimeters (MMCs).

Markus Klute

The ETP CMS group convened in Hamburg for an intensive three-day meeting with the other German CMS groups.

Markus Klute

On this year's bridge day, the ETP team went hiking in and around the picturesque landscape of Bad Herrenalb.

Belle II

More than 80 researchers from all German universities and research institutes that are members of the Belle II experiment met at KIT.

CMS

Dr. Benedikt Maier from ETP was awarded the Young Researcher Prize of the CMS Collaboration.

DPG

Prof. Klute gave a public lecture on the secrets of our universe in the Magnus House of the DPG in Berlin as a contribution to the Science Year.

CMS Collaboration

A team from ETP performed the measurement of the cross section of Z boson production at the new LHC center-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV at the CMS experiment.

DESY / Marta Mayer

The Pixel Vertex Detector (PXD) forms the innermost detector layer of the Belle II experiment. It has now been installed at its destination, the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan.

CMS Collaboration

Prof. Dr. Klute clarified the reasons for the current standstill of the LHC in the German radio program SWR2 Impuls.

arxiv

KIT researchers have developed a new method to study the properties of a hypothetical particle that could provide information about dark matter and other phenomena.

LUXE Kollaboration

Scientists from the LUXE collaboration have published a Technical Design Report that presents a detailed description of their proposed experiment.

A team of researchers from the KIT have developed a novel method for building graphs on FPGAs for machine learning applications in particle physics experiments in real time

At the highly anticipated 10 km run of the KIT Championship, several professors, postdocs, and doctoral students from ETP participated.

PhD students from ETP visited the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Leinfelden to present a CMS Masterclass.

Markus Klute

We hosted a symposium featuring renowned speakers from the field of particle physics to honor the illustrious career of Prof. Thomas Mueller for his 70th birthday.

Belle II Kollaboration

A new artificial intelligence has been developed at ETP that can determine the energies of photons in the Belle II experiment with unprecedented accuracy.

For the first time, scientists have used the Belle II experiment at Japan's KEK Research Center to search for long-lived particles.

Markus Klute

ETP successfully delivered the first of 26 titanium wedges to facilitate the mounting of the High-Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) detector in CMS.

A team of experimental and theoretical physicists from KIT and DESY have summarised the status of the phenomenology and of experimental searches for both light and heavy dark Higgs bosons in a review.

Tom Dack

From High-Performance Computing to Artificial Intelligence: Members of the ETP and SCC participated in the "International Conference on Computing in High Energy And Nuclear Physics" (CHEP).

Belina von Krosigk

Prof. Torben Ferber from ETP gave a talk on dark matter at the exhibition "Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter." at ZKM.

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

"Our Universe" is the title of the Science Year 2023 of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Insights into different facets of this theme were provided by KIT's Annual Celebration 2023.

DPG / Zilles 2023

In the context of the 83th Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society the 1st Datathon of the Working Group on Physics, Modern IT and Artificial Intelligence (AKPIK) was held.

Beatrix von Puttkamer

Scientists from ETP discussed the current status of their research with the interested audience at science Tuesday in the Triangel Open Space.

Olha Lavoryk

On Thursday February 16 - Weiberfastnacht, the Institute of Experimental Particle Physics experienced an unexpected and exciting takeover as part of a long-standing carnival tradition.

Alexander Heidelbach

The KIT Belle II group visited the SCC campus north last week. They got a tour through the high-performance computing cluster HoreKa (see picture)  and the Grid computing center GridKa.

Klaus Rabbertz

Together with almost 50 students and pupils, ETP visited the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Stefan Maier

The latest version of the CERN Courier features an article by ETP's Dr. Frank Hartmann, coordinator of the CMS Phase-II upgrade, on this very topic.