2020

Final Results of GERDA

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMT

GERDA has reported its final results on the search for the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of ⁷⁶Ge in the recent issue of Physical Review Letters.

PhD awarded to Dr. Chiara Capelli

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Chiara Capelli.

Three short videos about our research

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:00:00 GMT

Every year in November - during an event organised by our department - we present with posters and flyers our research topics to prospective bachelor and master students.

DARWIN in the Nature News and Spektrum

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:00:00 GMT

During this month, the DARWIN experiment has received considerable attention from the media. Two articles have appeared, one in the Nature News and the other in the German magazine Spektrum, describing the DARWIN project and its huge effort to give the WIMPs the last chance to be detected. We want to congratulate the whole DARWIN Collaboration and recommend to everybody the interesting reading.

Excess Events in XENON1T: published and featured in Physical Review D

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:00:00 GMT

In a search for solar axions, bosonic dark matter, and an enhanced neutrino magnetic moment, the XENON1T collaboration found an excess of events in the low-energy electronic recoil region.

PhD awarded to Dr. Adam Brown

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Adam Brown.

DARWIN Demonstrator: Successful Installation of the Heat Exchanger

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Our DARWIN team is making progress towards the commissioning of the full-length DARWIN demonstrator, under construction here at the University of Zurich.

DARWIN Collaboration Meeting (Online)

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:00:00 GMT

The DARWIN Collaboration Meeting was held from September 9 to 11, 2020.

DARWIN's sensitivity to the neutrinoless double beta decay published in EPJ-C

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:00:00 GMT

The DARWIN Collaboration has recently published the projected sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of¹³⁶Xe.

Successful Bachelor thesis defence

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Our student Livio Redard-Jacot recently completed their Bachelor thesis as part of the group.

Neutrino 2020 Conference

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 22:00:00 GMT

The XXIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2020) was organized by Fermilab and held online from June 22 to July 2, 2020.

Forschungskredit Postdoc Fellowship

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:00:00 GMT

We congratulate our group member Dr. Junting Huang for having been awarded the Forschungskredit Postdoc Fellowship 2020 for his project "Lepton and Baryon Number Violation Searches with High Purity Germanium Detectors". Junting is a member of the GERDA and LEGEND collaborations, which operate ultra-pure germanium crystals in a large liquid argon cryostat to search for neutrinoless double beta decay and other rare interactions.

Observation of Excess Events in XENON1T

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Today we announced that data from our XENON1T detector, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events.

Results with Xurich II and SiPM arrays published in EPJ-C

Tue, 26 May 2020 22:00:00 GMT

We have built the first dual-phase xenon TPC (Xurich II) with a SiPM top array.

Dr. Neil McFadden earns Chair's Award for Best Dissertation from University of New Mexico

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Postdoc Neil McFadden was awarded the Physics Department Chair's Award for Best Dissertation from the University of New Mexico, where he defended his thesis. His thesis defense, titled "Studying Properties Of Xenon Doped Argon and Developing Optical Simulation Techniques for the LEGEND collaboration, a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment ", granted him the honor of graduating with Distinction.

Stefan Hochrein honored with the Semester Award

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:00:00 GMT

We are very happy to announce that our former bachelor student (now master) Stefan Hochrein was honoured with the Semester Award Autumn-2019 for his outstanding scholarly work. He conducted his bachelor thesis on Kr-83m calibration of the first dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with silicon photomultiplier readout in our group and was supervised by our phd student Kevin Thieme with the help of our postdoc Patricia Sanchez. We wish him all the best for his promising future.

The XENONnT TPC is installed at LNGS

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:00:00 GMT

The installation of the XENONnT Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was successfully completed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS).

New group members

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:00:00 GMT

Two new members recently joined the group working on XENON, DARWIN and LEGEND. Alexander Bismark, from Freiburg University is a new PhD student working on XENONnT and the future DARWIN. Neil McFadden, a postdoc who completed his PhD at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, is working on the DARWIN demonstrator and on the LEGEND project. We are happy to welcome them in our group!

PhD awarded to Dr. Michael Miloradovic

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Michael Miloradovic.

Summer/Fall 2019 Students

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:00:00 GMT

We would like to congratulate three students who successfully worked with us in the second half of 2019.