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Nov. 30, 2023 Do Neutrons oscillate into a hidden world?

Today, physicists can describe our world with ever increasing precision: The Standard Model of particle physics successfully describes all observation concerning three out of four fundamental interactions - the electromagnetic, the weak and the strong interaction. Gravitation, the fourth known interaction, is fully explained by General Relativity. The application of General Relativity to the enti…

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Oct. 4, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 for Anton Zeilinger | the ILL congratulates

© Nobel Prize Outreach The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneeri…

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July 23, 2018 No sign of symmetrons

A high-precision experiment led by Vienna's Technical University (TU Vienna) has set its sights on pinpointing the so-far hypothetical "symmetron fields" using the PF2 ultra-cold neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France. The existence of symmetrons could provide an explanation …

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Feb. 12, 2018 Memorandum of understanding between NCBJ and the ILL

On January 30 this year the ILL Director Helmut Schober had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Krzysztof Kurek, the Director General of Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Warsaw, for an official visit to the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble.In a short general presentation Prof. Schober introduced the Institute’s governance and business model and highlighted the involvement…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Unveiling the invisible - T. Jenke's point of view in Nature Physics

Copyright Dmitry / fotolia.com The Universe is expanding: the distance between any two distinct points in the Universe increases with time. This has been known for 90 years and has been the subject of numerous debates among scientists throughout the world. Around 2…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Ultra-cold neutrons aid the search for dark matter

Ultra cold neutrons as the ideal tool A look inside the EDM setup used on PF2 at ILL. ©Artechnique Since the start of its operation in 1985, the experimental installation ‘Physique Fondamentale 2’ (PF2) has been until recently the only user facility for ultra-cold …

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April 16, 2014 Searching for dark energy with neutrons

It does not always take a huge accelerator to do particle physics.First results from a low-energy, table-top alternative experiment broaden the scope of validity of Newton's gravitational theory and define more narrowly - by more than a hundred thousand times - the potential properties of the forc…

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