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We, the Research Group Sfienti of the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, welcome you to our homepage. We hope you find all the information you need, and look forward to your visit.

News from our group

Wir suchen HiWis um Nachtschichten (0 bis 8 Uhr) bei unseren Experimenten bei A1 zu übernehmen. Insbesondere für den Zeitraum vom 7. bis 20. November brauchen wir noch Unterstützung.

Bei Interesse melden Sie sich bitte bei Michaela Thiel.

After years of development work, the new Pixel Vertex Detector (PXD2) was successfully installed in the international Belle-II experiment at the SuperKEKB electron-positron accelerator in Japan. Under our leadership, real-time monitoring of data quality was implemented and key sections of the software controlling the PXD2 were programmed. In addition, sensor modules were tested at MAMI for their radiation hardness.

Read the full press release here

The results reported on the excitation of the nucleus of  4He atoms measured with the A1 spectrometer setup at Mainz have made it into Physics Today, one of the leading physics magazines in the world.

The entire article is available in Physics Today.