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Helium nuclei at the surface of heavy nuclei discovered
Research team confirms a new nuclear property predicted by theory
Scientists are able to selectively knockout nucleons and preformed nuclear clusters from atomic nuclei using high-energy proton beams. In an experiment performed at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) in Osaka in Japan, the existence of preformed helium nuclei at the surface of several tin isotopes could be identified in a reaction. The results confirm a theory, which predicts the formation of helium clusters in low-density nuclear matter and at the surface of heavy nuclei. A research team, lead by scientists from TU Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research, and from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, discuss the new findings in a contribution to the latest issue of the journal "Science".
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Limits of atomic nuclei predicted
Scientists simulate large region of the chart of nuclides
Novel calculations have enabled the study of nearly 700 isotopes between helium and iron, showing which nuclei can exist and which cannot. In an article published in Physical Review Letters, scientists from TU Darmstadt, the University of Washington, the Canadian laboratory TRIUMF, and the University of Mainz report how they simulated for the first time using innovative theoretical methods a large region of the chart of nuclides based on the theory of the strong interaction.
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The Executive Board's outlook on the next few weeks under pandemic conditions
What impact do the Federal and State Governments' recent decisions to contain the coronavirus pandemic have on TU Darmstadt?
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Magnetism instead of compression
TU spin-off MagnoTherm Solutions wants to revolutionise the refrigeration industry
The product ideas have huge market potential, the technology behind them is disruptive: For its climate-friendly and sustainable cooling systems, MagnoTherm Solutions replaces harmful gases with a solid material whose cooling effect is controlled by magnetic fields. The commercial application of this long-researched material is a novelty in the refrigeration industry. The start-up wants to enter the fiercely competitive industry as quickly as possible with "plug-in refrigerated displays" for the retail trade.
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Insights into the underground
Researchers at TU Darmstadt are evaluating core samples taken at a depth of five kilometres for a geothermal project
A drilling rig at the United Downs Deep Geothermal Project drilled a borehole to a depth of 4900 metres into the granite beneath Cornwall a few months ago. The 19 core samples that were extracted – the deepest that have ever been taken on the mainland in Great Britain – are now at TU Darmstadt. Researchers at the Institute of Applied Geosciences are investigating them to discover how sustainable and efficient geothermal energy can be produced in the project in Cornwall.
Prediction made by Noble Prize laureates confirmed
TU physicists detect atomic nuclei with unusual symmetry
Physicists headed by Professor Norbert Pietralla from the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt have developed a method to very precisely differentiate between the states of atomic nuclei. This has led them to make a spectacular discovery.
Welcome to the Emmy Noether Programme
Robotics expert Georgia Chalvatzaki awarded an AI Grant
Georgia Chalvatzaki, a postdoctoral researcher at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group (IAS) in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, has been accepted into the renowned Emmy Noether Programme (ENP) of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
A pocket-sized particle accelerator
TU scientists research accelerator chips
A chip that can accelerate electrons in just a few millimetres to the same energy as current particle accelerators the size of a room? That is precisely what has been developed at TU Darmstadt and it could lead to inexpensive devices that can be used anywhere.
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From the laboratory to the consumer
The "Pioneer Fund" programme funds projects that transfer research into commercial application
A new water-repellent paper and a test to detect antibiotics in food with the aid of a smartphone – these are the subjects of the two projects being funded in the sixth round of the Pioneer Fund. This joint programme for the funding of innovations from TU Darmstadt and the ENTEGA NATURpur Institute has been supporting the transfer of research into commercial application since 2017 with total funding of 600,000 Euro per year.
Urgent appeal of the Executive Board of TU Darmstadt
In the light of the alarming development of new coronavirus infections in Germany and the extremely tense situation at the intensive care units of Darmstadt's university hospitals, the Executive Board of TU Darmstadt appeals to all employees and staff at the university to continue acting responsibly and to consider further restrictions on their behaviour in their daily working routine, too. Mobile work still has absolute priority over working on site and should be practised whenever feasible.
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Successful due to expertise in trustworthy artificial intelligence
Cybersecurity researchers at the TU Darmstadt compete internationally
Two research teams of TU Darmstadt succeed in a world-wide call for proposals with their innovative research projects to develop trustworthy decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and will become part of the Private AI Collaborative Research Institute supported by Intel, Avast and Borsetta.
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How to cool more efficiently
Scientists break new ground in future refrigeration
In the journal Applied Physics Reviews (DOI: 10.1063/5.0020755), an international research team from the University of Barcelona, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and TU Darmstadt report on possibilities for implementing more efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration processes. For this purpose, they investigated the effects of simultaneously exposing certain alloys to magnetic fields and mechanical stress.
Investigating the origins of materials
The Athene Young Investigator Alexander Tichai has dedicated himself to basic research in physics
Atomic nuclei form a highly interactive quantum-mechanical many-body system consisting of protons and neutrons. Yet what form do these interactions take precisely and how do these many-body systems behave in experiments? These are basic research questions in physics that the new Athene Young Investigator (AYI) Alexander Tichai has been investigating for many years.
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With speed to the flexible Internet of the future
Collaborative Research Centre at TU Darmstadt to receive further funding of 15 million euros
The Collaborative Research Centre MAKI (Multi-Mechanism Adaptation for the Future Internet) at the Technical University of Darmstadt has been working since 2013 on research into the foundations for a fast, flexible and reliable next-generation Internet. MAKI is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for another four years with around 15 million euros. In the third funding phase, the flexibility, resilience and speed of communication networks are to be significantly improved.
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Faster route from the lab to application
The "Pioneer Fund" funding programme is supporting three further projects
Self-learning robots in the automotive industry, precious metal-free catalysts for fuel cells and a special system for organ-like 3D cell cultures – these are all topics that researchers at TU Darmstadt are working on in the three Pioneer Fund research projects that have now been approved. The joint innovation support programme of TU Darmstadt and the ENTEGA NATURpur Institute has been supporting the transfer from research to application since 2017 with a total of 600,000 euros every year. An overview of the projects of the seventh funding round, which is to start in December.
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