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An old "flaw" of the famous double-slit experiment has now been corrected at TU Wien in a cooperation with Hiroshima University: A single neutron moves along two paths simultaneously, in clearly quantifiable proportions. Courtesy of TU Wien.

Anne STUTZ (LPSC) & Mathieu VIALAT (ILL) stand next to STEREO What are and where are these 25% of the contents of the universe that we call "dark matter"? Could there be a hidden world, the physicists speak of "hidden brane", in which our ordinary matter could …

Medical isotope collection at CERN MEDICIS; ©CERN 2018-2021 Nuclear therapy and molecular imaging, which are widely used in hospitals for promising new medical procedures, can drastically improve outcomes for many medical conditions, making it possible to treat dis…

11th October 2018: Grenoble, France – Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) the world’s flagship neutron facility, hosts the global neutron community in its hometown to discuss the future of neutron science in Europe and highlight cutting-edge research in the field. Neutron science is critical to Europe’s scientific impact. The ILL has enabled globally significant research in this field for over 50 years,…

This article was writen in anticipation of Felix Kandzia’s webinar, scheduled on Oct 28th 2020, where he presents the significative improvements brought to the FIPPS’s Target System, as part of his FILL2030 post-doc mission.

Recent experiments jointly conducted at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) alongside three other laboratories around the world have revealed a surprisingly complex landscape of three different coexisting shapes in 64Ni, a semi-magic nucleus thought to be purely spherical up to now.  This experimenta…

By Araceli LOPEZ-MARTENS, CSNSM, Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, France

Magnetic system of new PF1B polarizer The ILL has now implemented the best neutron polariser in the world – it is more compact and cheaper than others because of its size and able to reach nearly 100% polarisation. It is set to be implemented at a number of facilit…

schematic illustration of the interferometric setup A letter published in Physical Review Letters, by a group of scientists of the Atominstitut  - Institute of Atomic & Subatomic Physics of TU Wien (Austria), after an experiment on S18 at ILL. Nuclear spin tomo…

Pulsed Ti:sapphire laser setup used for the determination of the ionization potential of promethium at Mainz University. 26 June 2019Timely for the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's…

Photo of the PERKEO III spectrometer during tests at Heidelberg University. Credit: Hartmut Abele. The to date most accurate measurement of the weak axial vector coupling constant gA has just been published as Editors' suggestion in PRL [1]. This fundamental consta…

Precise measurements at the ILL of beta asymmetry rule out neutron decay into exotic dark matter particles