2019

Light Dark Matter Results Published

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:00:00 GMT

XENON1T has now published the world-leading constraints on light dark matter in Physical Review Letters as an Editor's Suggestion.

New group members on GERDA and LEGEND

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Three new members recently joined the group working on GERDA/LEGEND: Yannick Mueller from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo from the Technical University of Munich, and Junting Huang from the University of Texas at Austin. Yannick and Gabriela are Ph.D. students, and Junting is a postdoc. We are happy to welcome them in our group!

Probing Majorana neutrinos with double-β decay

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:00:00 GMT

The latest results from the GERDA experiment were published in Science this week. GERDA reached the 1.1 x 10²⁶ y sensitivity to the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76-Ge.

Scientifica 2019: Science Fiction – Science Facts

Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Under this motto, the University of Zürich and the ETH organised the Zürich science days of this year.

PhD awarded to Dr. Rizalina Mingazheva

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Rizalina Mingazheva.

Three successful Bachelor thesis defences

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Three students recently completed their Bachelor thesis as part of the group.

Xenoscope - DARWIN demonstrator frame assembly

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:00:00 GMT

In the context of the ERC-funded Xenoscope project, our group is designing and building a full height DARWIN demonstrator.

Best poster and Bjorn Wiik diploma for Yanina Biondi

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Our DARWIN PhD student Yanina Biondi was selected to participate in the 57th International Erice School of Subnuclear Physics "In search for the unexpected".

GERDA collaboration meeting in Zurich

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:00:00 GMT

From June 24 to June 26 we hosted the GERDA collaboration meeting in the Main Building of the University of Zurich.

First observation of two-neutrino double electron capture in Xe-124 with XENON1T

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Two-neutrino double electron capture (2νECEC) is a second-order weak-interaction process with a predicted half-life that surpasses the age of the Universe by many orders of magnitude.

XENON1T Detector Disassembly

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:00:00 GMT

The XENON1T team has recently disassembled the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso to prepare for the installation of the new XENONnT detector.

2019 Science Info Day

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:00:00 GMT

The 2019 Science Info Day at the University of Zurich took place on 9 March at Irchel Campus. The Science Info Day is the Faculty of Science's orientation event for prospective students.