2023

Dectris Award for Livio Redard-Jacot

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

The work of our former master student Livio Redard-Jacot was awarded the “Best Master Thesis in Experimental Physics at UZH”, sponsored by Detrics Ltd. The award is given annually to the best thesis in experimental physics of the year and determined by a panel of internal and external experts to UZH.

Success at Interdisciplinary Symposium: Marta Babicz's Poster Award

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to share our participation in the Symposium University of Tokyo – ETH Zurich – University of Zurich, Interdisciplinary Strategic Partnership Tokyo - Zurich, held on 16-17 October 2023 at ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg Siemens Auditorium.

PhD awarded to Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Gabriela R. Araujo.

Two-neutrino double-β decay half-life of Ge-76

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

The GERDA collaboration presented the measurement of the two-neutrino double-β (2νββ) decay rate of ⁷⁶Ge performed with the GERDA Phase 2 experiment, which was published in Phys. Rev. Lett. today as editor's suggestion.

PhD awarded to Yannick Müller

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Yannick Müller.

A Summer of Conferences!

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT

The students and postdocs from our group attended and contributed to several conferences this summer, both local and international.

Xenoscope purity monitor results on electron transport

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT

To study construction and operation challenges for the planned multi-tonne scale dark matter detector DARWIN, we designed and built Xenoscope, a vertical full-scale demonstrator aiming at investigating the electron transport and survival over a 2.6 m drift path and the high voltage distribution for the DARWIN time projection chamber (TPC), among others.

First dark matter search results from XENONnT

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT

The XENON collaboration reported first results on a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with the XENONnT experiment.

PhD awarded to Ricardo Peres

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Ricardo Peres.

Group members awarded with Forschungskredit grants

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Our group members Dr. Christian Wittweg, Gabriela R. Araujo and Paloma Cimental, have received Postdoc and Candoc grants from the Forschungskredit UZH Founds.

PhD awarded to Giovanni Volta

Wed, 24 May 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Giovanni Volta.

PhD awarded to Frédéric Girard

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations, Dr. Frédéric Girard.

The SiPM array of Xenoscope

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:00:00 GMT

The Xenoscope vertical demonstrator for the DARWIN experiment utilizes an array of silicon photomultipliers within its 2.6 m long time projection chamber (TPC).

Calibration sources for LEGEND-200

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT

The description of the production process and of the characterisation of low-neutron emission 228-Th sources for the calibration of the neutrinloess double-beta decay experiment LEGEND-200 was published todayin JINST 18, 2023.