CMS

With CMS we investigate the fundamental building blocks of matter. Among other things, the Higgs boson was discovered at the CMS experiment.

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Double Chooz

The Double Chooz experiment is looking for special elementary particles called neutrinos. It measures the oscillation of neutrinos, ...

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EDM

So far there are no direct measurements of EDMs of charged particles. These high-precision experiments on new types of storage rings are required.

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EnEx und TRIPLE

Within the Enceladus Explorer Initiative of the DLR Space Administration new navigation technologies for a future space mission are developed. This mission aims to search for extraterrestrial life on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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Einstein telescope

Einstein telescope © Copyright: Marco Kraan, Nikhef

The Einstein telescope is to become a third-generation gravitational wave detector ...

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GRID COMPUTING

As part of the CMS experiment several petabytes of measurement and simulation data are generated annually, which are processed using the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).

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IceCube

The IceCube Neutrino Detector is a neutrino telescope, mounted at the South Pole. 

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LENA and JUNO

The JUNO detector (Jiangmen Underground Observatory) is planned as a spherical 20 kilotons liquid scintillator detector near Jiangmen, China. 

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Medical Imaging

Medical imaging has a key role in the field of diagnostics, interventions, therapy planning and for the assessment of the therapy response.

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Neutron detectors

In cooperation with the Aachen Institute for Nuclear Training GmbH (AiNT) we are working on the development of a neutron radiography system.

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NUCLEAR VERIFICATION AND DISARMAMENT

Disarmament of nuclear weapons requires verification. For future agreements, new techniques must be developed.

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Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy © Copyright: Max Emde 2014

Cancer is in the industrialized countries second leading cause of death. About half of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy.

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T2K

The T2K (Tokai to Kamiokanda) project is a long baseline (295 km) neutrino scillation experiment scheduled for data taking late 2009.

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TPC Development

In high energy physics, a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a particle detector which provides a complete track information on charged particles traveling through a gas volume contained in the chamber ...

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Publications

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