Group News

A Python program to characterize silicon photomultipliers has been developed in our group: the PeakOTron.
This program can fit a published detector...

We wish everyone happy holidays and a healthy and happy new year 2023!

We have successfully glued the first CMS Inner Tracker Pixel 2x2 CROC Prototype Module for the Phase-II upgrade of the CMS pixel detector.

On the...

Winter is here! And for the first time after three years, this also means a group outing to the Christmas market. This year with "winter golf"  in the...

Amala Augusthy defended her master thesis on the "Measurment of position resolution of small pixel sensors" today.

Congratulations, Amala!

The 21st episode of the podcast "Exzellent erklärt. Spitzenforschung für alle" (Excellent Explained. Cutting-edge research for all)  is all about dark...

For the past few month, a large hole graced the lawn next to our building entrance - all in preparation for the new signpost that arrived today.

It's...

At the CERN cryolab, the MADMAX team just completed successfully the first cooling test of a tiled disk, i.e. multiple smaller hexagons glued together...

Julius Römer defended his master thesis on "Radiation Hardness of a Wide Spectral Range SiPM with Quasi-Spherical Implant" today.

Congratulations...

A big thanks to Stephan and Carmen for the conception and realization of the "as of now traditional" Dr. QU hat.

The first hat-award-ceremony for PhD...

Mohammadtaghi Hajheidari defended his PhD thesis on Charge collection of irradiated silicon pad diodes and characterization of pixel sensor for the...

The High-D consortium held its second consortium meeting last Friday and today. We learned about the progress the consortium members made in their...

David Leppla-Weber defended his master thesis on optimizing the MADMAX booster today.

Congratulations, David!

Jacob Egge presented his work on Axion Haloscope Calibration from Reciprocity at the 17th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs in Mainz.

For...

Dominik Breitmoser defended his master thesis on the development of a dielectric disk for an axion haloscope today.

Congratulations, Dominik!

Why travel far away in the summer time, when you can have so much fun much closer to home?

We are taking data with another CMS Read-Out Chip (CROC)...

The July edition of the Physik Journal -  the official journal of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft with a circulation of 60,000 copies -...

Congratulations to Bianca, Carmen and Mohammad! They won the first Quantum Universe Food Contest with their colorful and tasty contribution "1...

We just finished our first testbeam campaign to characterise six of the new "CROC" modules: the latest prototypes of the "CMS Read Out Chip”. They are...

Project200 has returned to the SHELL lab in Hamburg after the successful tests at CERN - both at cryogenic temperatures in the Cryolab as well as in...

The MADMAX team from Hamburg, together with colleagues from MPP Munich and CPPM Marseille, is back at CERN: after the successful tests of Project200...

During our second testbeam campaign this year, we are performing annealing studies for the CMS phase II pixel detector upgrade. This means testing...

A team of MADMAX scientists from Hamburg and Munich started to perform of tests with the MADMAX pre-prototype booster Project200 at the Cryolab at...

This week the High-D consortium held its first consortium meeting, with presentations on all the intriguing avenues of research pursued by the...

Today one of the spare ALPS-II magnets was used by the MADMAX collaboration for the first operation of a newly developed high-precision piezoelectric...

With a picture of these delicious custom-shaped MADMAX cookies, we wish you a joyful holiday season and a happy new  year.

Remember when we showed you the first glimpse of the mechanical prototype of the MADMAX mechanic structure in September?

Now "Project 200" is back -...

It's alive! Well, not really, but it began to move: the robot arm in our CMS lab took up operation and is currently being comissioned.

Our group is...

The first day of December = the opening of the first door of our group advent calendar.

Have a safe and healthy festive season!

We're back in area T21 of the DESY II test beam facitily to perform beam tests for the CMS phase II pixel detector upgrade.

Just for a week this time...

Irene Zoi defended her PhD thesis on the Search for diboson resonances in the all jets final state with CMS at √s = 13 TeV and Pixel sensor...

Finn Feindt defended his PhD thesis on Silicon Pixel Sensors in the Inner Tracking System of the CMS Experiment.

Congratulations, Finn!

The newly installed mechanical prototype of the MADMAX mechanic structure is now shining bright inside the shielded experimental hall SHELL.

Caroline Niemeyer defended her PhD thesis on Edge-on Measurements on Planar Pixel Sensors for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade.

Congratulations, Caroline!

Lukas Brinkmann defended his bachelor thesis on modelling the SiPM response to low light intensity today.

Congratulations, Lukas!

Working in an extremely clean environment is essential when gluing tiles for the MADMAX experiment. Today we finished the assembly of the new clean...

We're back at the DESY II testbeam again!

For the third time this year - this time to test irradiated diodes, and more modules for the CMS phase II...

Oscar Murzewitz defended his bachelor thesis on dead layer determination in radiation-damaged silicon diodes today.

Congratulations, Oscar!

We're back in area T21 of the DESY II test beam facility!

The third (and last) week of data taking for this test beam campaign for the CMS phase II...

Anna Puchert defended her bachelor thesis on the characterization of prototype pixel sensors for the CMS inner tracker at the high-luminosity LHC...

Astrophysicists Dr. Pranjal Trivedi (Hamburg Observatory) talks about dark matter and shows different methods with which the mysteries surrounding it...

Laura Büttgen defended her bachelor thesis on the characterization of irradiated silicon photomultipliers today.

Congratulations, Laura!

We just finished our last DESY test beam campaign of the year 2020 for the CMS phase II pixel detector upgrade.

MADMAX is planning to test the prototype in the Morpurgo magnet at CERN.

Read all about it in the CERN EP department news article.

Dominik Breitmoser defended his bachelor thesis on the characterization of dielectric materials for MADMAX today. Afterwards, the entire group got to...

The detector lab is open again: after the home-office time due to the coronavirus pandemic, we have now returned to full operation in the...

We welcome Anna, Laura and Oscar as new bachelor students in the summer semester 2020!

The president of the University has decided that we should try to work from home as much as possible. So now the corridors of the detector lab stand...