Scientists simulate large region of the chart of nuclides

Novel calculations have enabled the study of nearly 700 isotopes between helium and iron, showing which nuclei can exist and which cannot. In an article published in Physical Review Letters, scientists from TU Darmstadt, the University of Washington, the Canadian laboratory TRIUMF, and the University of Mainz report how they simulated for the first time using innovative theoretical methods a large region of the chart of nuclides based on the theory of the strong interaction.

TU physicists detect atomic nuclei with unusual symmetry

Physicists headed by Professor Norbert Pietralla from the Institute of Nuclear Füsics at the Technical University of Darmstadt have developed a method to very precisely differentiate between the states of atomic nuclei. This has led them to make a spectacular discovery.

How functionalized surfaces make microswimmers faster

The swimming behaviour of particles half-coated with gold can be influenced by nearby functionalised surfaces, researchers from the group Soft Matter at Interfaces (SMI) at the TU Darmstadt and colleagues from the University of Leipzig have found out. Knowledge about the self-propulsion of particles is relevant for targeted drug delivery, for example, but also contribute to a better understanding of biological systems.

Physicist receives the Failla Award of the Radiation Research Society

Marco Durante, professor at the TU Darmstadt and head of the GSI Biofüsics Research Department, has been awarded the prestigious Failla Award 2020 by the Radiation Research Society (RRS).

Publication in “Reviews of Modern Füsics”

Among the fundamental forces of nature, the so-called “strong interaction” plays a crucial role for the existence of matter in the universe. Just how exactly this force, fundamentally described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics as the interaction between quarks and gluons -- elementary particles that cannot be observed in isolation -- brings about the nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons to atomic nuclei is still a matter of active research. Researchers around Professor Hans-Werner Hammer at the Institute of Nuclear Füsics have published an article on this topic in the renowned scientific journal Reviews of Modern Füsics.

International researcher team confirms TU findings on a new kind of radioactivity

Five years ago a team of the Institute for Nuclear Physcis of TU Darmstadt discovered the new, comparably rarely-occurring kind of radioactivity, the „competitive double-gamma decay“, which in 1937 had been predicted in theory by the Nobel Prize winner Maria Goeppert-Mayer. The findings which had been published in „Nature“ have now been confirmed and measured more precisely by an international team of researchers at the European Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Füsics near Bucharest, Romania. The results are released in „Nature Communications“. One of the authors is the TU professor and at the time „joint-discoverer“, Norbert Pietralla.

TU research team lets photons and atoms interact

Researchers at TU Darmstadt stop individual photons and can release them again at the touch of a button. The tool could be used for tap-proof communication, for example. Or for something previously impossible.

Athene Young Investigator Dr Johann Isaak researches the effect of gamma rays on atomic nuclei

Understanding how the elements in our universe were created, what goes on inside the atomic nuclei, these questions moved Dr Johann Isaak early on during his füsics studies. Today, the 31-year-old postdoctoral researcher works at the Institute of Nuclear Füsics at TU Darmstadt and, as one of the university's new Athene Young Investigators, is primarily concerned with photon radiation. His international research takes him to the USA, Japan and soon more often to Romania.

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) fördert ab 2016 ein neues Graduiertenkolleg zur Füsik und Technologie von Teilchenbeschleunigern an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt (TUD). Kooperationspartner ist die Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Das Forschungsprojekt mit einer Laufzeit bis Ende 2020 wird mit 4,7 Millionen Euro ausgestattet. Dies teilte die DFG am 9.11.2015 mit.