Researchers from TU Darmstadt and the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new theoretical model to study the inner crust of neutron stars. Their work, published in Physical Review Letters, reveals that both neutrons and
There exist several mechanisms explaining the formation of element isotopes in astrophysical phenomena. Nuclear fusion in stars is capable of producing elements up to iron and nickel. However, heavier ones can only be synthesized in
The Cracow School of Theoretical Physics is organized yearly since 1961 in Zakopane, winter and summer resort town located in the High Tatra Mountains approximately 100 km south of a historical city of Krakow, a former
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the international research training group “Nuclear Photonics” of TU Darmstadt and Politehnica University Bucharest. The Research Training Group will be funded with approximately five million euros from 1
At the S-DALINAC, Norbert Pietralla’s team has succeeded for the first time in measuring directly the reduction of energy consumption by a particle accelerator due to the reuse of previously applied energy in a two-fold energy
So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into
The European Union has awarded a total of 11.3 million euros over a period of six years to the HEAVYMETAL research project, which aims to investigate the synthesis of chemical elements in neutron star mergers.
ELEMENTS’ Early Career Researchers Representative Dr. Meytal Duer and Principal Investigator Prof. Thomas Aumann from TU Darmstadt just published an article in Nature that describes the discovery of an isolated multi-neutron system. Congratulations! So far,
It is hard to miss these days when every news website and newspaper (not to mention Twitter) is giving it the attention it deserves: The first image of the Black Hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)
Our spokesperson Norbert Pietralla recently acquired funding for a high-power laser system for more than €600,000 by the Major Research Instrumentation Programme of the German Research Foundation. The laser will be installed at the superconducting
