Group News (2022)

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...