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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…

© 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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …