News
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Open Day 2021, November 26
Members of the Physics Department presented 40 posters with current research directions and ideas for future experiments and lead through the mechanical workshop and the research laboratories.
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Dectris Preis 2021 - Vera Hiu-Sze Wu
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Vera Hiu-Sze Wu, die Gewinnerin des DECTRIS Preises! Der Preis wird für eine hervorragende Masterarbeit in Experimentalphysik an unserem Institut verliehen.
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Gravitational-Wave Catalog
Black holes of ‘all shapes and sizes’ in new gravitational-wave catalog
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Fast spectroscopic mapping of two-dimensional quantum materials
New publication by the group of Fabian Natterer in Phys. Rev.
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New strain cell for neutron and x-ray scattering
A collaboration between the groups of Profs. Chang and Janoschek and the PSI, has developed a novel strain cell that can be combined with high-resolution synchrotron diffraction techniques allowing to change the strain of a quantum material in-situ while directly observing the lattice symmetry.
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Florencia Canelli - neue CMS Physik Koordinatorin
Am 1. September begann Florencia Canelli Ihre Arbeit als CMS Physik-Koordinatorin. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
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Exceptional Topological Insulators
Researchers from the group Neupert propose the non-Hermitian analogue of three-dimensional topological insulators.
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Installation des CMS Pixel Detektors
Nach mehr als zwei Jahren Wartung und Upgrade während der Shutdown des LHC Beschleunigers wurde der Pixeldetektor im Zentrum des CMS-Detektors wieder installiert.
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Zwei neue Ambizione Fellows
Herzlichen Glückwunsch: Luca Rottoli (Gruppe Grazzini) und Shubhanshu Tiwari (Gruppe Jetzer) erhalten einen SNF Ambizione Grant für die nächsten vier Jahre!
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In memoriam Roland Engfer, 5. Dezember 1934 - 18. Oktober 2021
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Gravitationswellen-Exponat in focus Terra ETH
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RAI SuperQuark: Italian TV report on recent LHCb results
Italian TV report on the Flavour Anomalies measured at LHCb, featuring Nico Serra and Gino Isidori
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Leading Xenon Researchers unite to build next-generation Dark Matter Detector
Hundreds of global researchers, including University of Zurich, are planning the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built.
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Theory meets Experiment: Ultimate precision for the Drell-Yan process
Theoretical particle physicists of the group of Massimiliano Grazzini have completed the first computation of strong-electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process.
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New sputtering system with in situ Reflective High Energy Electron Diffraction
This new system used by the group of Marta Gibert allows to track the growth of complex oxide thin films with atomic precision in real time.
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Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen
Die Astroteilchenphysikerin Laura Baudis sucht nach verborgener Materie.
SCNAT portraitiert Laura Baudis in der Reihe Wissenschaftlerinnen in ehemaligen Männerdomänen -
First discovery of a neutron star colliding with a black hole
For the first time, gravitational-wave astronomers of the LIGO collaboration - including Maria Haney und Shubhanshu Tiwari from the group of Philippe Jetzer - have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.
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Kenny Choo erhält SPS Thesis Award
Für seine Doktorarbeit über Quantenzustände in neuronalen Netzwerken erhielt Kenny Choo aus der Condensed Matter Theory Group den PhD Thesis Award 2021 der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft in der Kategorie Computational Physics.
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Theorists discover new paradigm of topological band structures
In their recent work members of the group Neupert extend the paradigm of topological insulators to areas which were previously thought to contain only trivial insulators.
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ERC grant: TOPUP - Theory of Particle Collider Processes at Ultimate Precision
Professor Thomas Gehrmann erhält einen ERC Advanced Grant um neue Methoden für Präzisionsberechnungen in der Teilchenphysik zu entwickeln.
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Recent Results from LHCb Challenge Leading Theory in Physics
The LHCb collaboration has just released new intriguing results. The latest measurements strengthen hints for a deviation with respect to the theoretical expectations.
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Damic
The DAMIC experiment has uncovered an interesting excess of events while searching for dark matter. The probability that the background produced the excess is less than one in a thousand.
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WannierBerri
The Python code WannierBerri developed by Stepan Tsirkin breaks the records of speed in evaluation of anomalous transport in solids.
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CMS Award for Cristina Botta
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High-quality hexagonal boron nitride from 2D distillation
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the key packaging material in two-dimensional (2D) materials field, though synthesis of high-quality h-BN has remained a major challenge. Cun at al. reported a new scheme to fabricate single layer h-BN
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GERDA Resultat: Neutrinoloser Doppelbetazerfall
Die Untergrenze für die Halbwertszeit des neutrinolosen doppelten Betazerfalls (0νββ) von 76Ge beträgt 1,8 × 1026 Jahre, so das Endergebnis des Experiments GERDA im Untergrundlabor LNGS in Italien.
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Unusual coupling in an artificial material
The group of Marta Gibert published results on the transport properties of atomic-precise superlattices made from two alternating distinct nickelate layers, NdNiO3 and SmNiO3 in Nature Materials.
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Machine Learning kompakt
Einstieg zum Machine Learning - ein Buch von Titus Neupert et al. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende aller Naturwissenschaften und kann https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658322670 kostenlos (von der UZH aus) heruntergeladen werden.