General
JGU to submit full proposal for its PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence
Good start into the German Excellence Strategy competition. International expert committee approves the PRISMA+ proposal for the final round of the nationwide competition
Groups and Members
![]() Prof. Dr. Sebastian Böser
Staudingerweg 7, 05-625 |
![]() Dr. Veronika Palusova
vpalusov@uni-mainz.de |
![]() Dr. Martin Rongen
Staudingerweg 7, 05-527 |
![]() Alec Lindman, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-527 |
![]() Christian Matthé, PhD student
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![]() Yuriy Popovych, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-527 |
![]() John Rack-Helleis, PhD student
Tel.: +49 6131 39-- |
![]() Florian Thomas, PhD student
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![]() Prof. Dr. Uwe Gerd Oberlack
Staudingerweg 7, 04-619 |
![]() Prof. Dr. Frank Fiedler
Staudingerweg 7, 04-319 |
![]() Dr. Alexander Deisting
Staudingerweg 7, 04-621 |
![]() Dr. Savitri Gallego
Staudingerweg 7, 04-317 |
![]() Dr. Francesco Lombardi
Staudingerweg 7, 04-621 |
![]() Peter György, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Christopher Hils, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Pascal Janowski, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Kaveh Kooshkjalali, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Jan Peter Lommler, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-317 |
![]() Johannes Merz, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Constantin Szyszka, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Jack Xie Haoyu, Master student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-525 |
![]() Prof. Dr. Matthias Schott
Staudingerweg 7, 05-315 |
![]() Dr. Melike Akbiyik
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![]() Dr. Jack MacDonald
Staudingerweg 7, 05-223 |
![]() Dr. Hannes Mildner
Staudingerweg 7, 03-319 |
![]() Dr. Elisa Ruiz Choliz
Staudingerweg 7, 05-319 |
![]() Dr. Kristof Schmieden
kschmied@uni-mainz.de |
![]() Dhruv Chouhan, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-223 |
![]() Peter Krämer, PhD student
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![]() Georgios Lamprinoudis, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-223 |
![]() Friedemann Neuhaus, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-223 |
![]() Patrycja Potepa, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-223 |
![]() Rikhav Shah, PhD student
Tel.: +49 6131 39-- |
![]() Olivera Vujinovic, PhD student
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![]() Marten Mildeberger, Master student
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![]() Birte Sauer, Master student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-319 |
![]() Prof. Dr. Alfons Weber
Staudingerweg 7, 04-430 |
![]() Dr. Lukas Koch, Akademischer Rat
Staudingerweg 7, 04-432 |
![]() Dr. Ioana Alexandra Caracas
Staudingerweg 7, 02-132 |
![]() Dr. Cloé Girard-Carillo
Staudingerweg 7, 02-132 |
![]() Dr. Liam O'Sullivan
Staudingerweg 7, 03-221 |
![]() Dr. Stefan Schoppmann, Detector Lab Fellow
Staudingerweg 9, 01-230 |
![]() Dr. Hans Steiger, Detector Lab Fellow
Staudingerweg 9, 01-230 |
![]() Asa Nehm, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 03-221 |
![]() Gioele Reina, PhD student
Tel.: +49 6131 39-- |
![]() Asit Srivastava, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 03-221 |
![]() Susanna Wakely, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 02-132 |
![]() Prof. Dr. Michael Wurm
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Dr. Annika Hollnagel
Staudingerweg 7, 05-521 |
![]() Dr. Stefan Schoppmann, Detector Lab Fellow
Staudingerweg 9, 01-230 |
![]() Amala Augusthy, PhD student
augustha@uni-mainz.de |
![]() Manuel Böhles, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-521 |
![]() Patrick Deucher, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-521 |
![]() Noah Goehlke, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Arshak Jafar, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() David Maksimovic, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 04-428 |
![]() Johann Martyn, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() George Parker, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Oliver Pilarczyk, PhD student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Marcel Büchner, Master student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Tim Charisse, Master student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Magdalena Eisenhuth, Master student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Daniela Fetzer, Master student
Staudingerweg 7, 05-623 |
![]() Prof. Dr. Konrad Kleinknecht
Staudingerweg 7, 04-321 |
![]() Prof. Dr. Lutz Köpke
Staudingerweg 7, 04-323 |
Nature Index Ranking confirms cutting-edge research in Physics at Mainz University
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is among Germany’s top five academic institutions in the field of Physics.
Experiments
Neutrino Physics
- ANNIE Phase-II (water+gadolinium)
- study of GeV-neutrino interactions as background for
Diffuse Supernova Neutrino and proton decay searches - Novel reconstruction algorithms for particle and event discrimination
- Data stability monitoring tools and event display
- study of GeV-neutrino interactions as background for
- ANNIE Phase-III (water-based liquid scintillator, WbLS)
- Design study and simulations for the WbLS phase
- Liquid-Scintillator-Cherenkov-Cube (LSC3) to study the separation
of Cherenkov and scintillation signals in a laboratory-scale setup
- Increasing sensitivity for solar CNO neutrinos
- Pointing at the Sun: Directional reconstruction of solar neutrinos
- Study of long-term modulation of signals and backgrounds to increase sensitivity
- Advanced veto techniques for cosmic muon-induced backgrounds
- Study of neutrino oscillations
- Develop near detector to measure neutrino beam and interactions properties
- Develop high performance calorimeter to measure energy and direction of photosn and time-of-flight for neutrions
- Analyses
- Supernova data acquisition and analysis techniques
- Energy and directional reconstruction
- Development of novel detection techniques
- Neutrino oscillation physics and non-standard phenomena
- Atmospheric neutrino physics
- Cosmic neutrino composition analysis
- PINGU and Phase-I sensitivity studies
- Oscillation analysis framework
- Super Nova Data acquisition
- Monitoring software for the IceCube detector
- Muon track reconstruction
- Lab measurements and monitoring systems for liquid scintillator transparency
- The OSIRIS pre-detector for monitoring the radiopurity of the liquid scintillator:
- Mechanical design of the detector and the liquid handling system
- Laboratory-scale prototype (1:10) of OSIRIS to study
liquid flow/stratification and mechanoluminescence - Simulation studies for detector design & monitoring sensitivity
- Sensitivity studies for the detection of Supernova/DSNB neutrinos in JUNO
- Track and event reconstruction
- Trigger and online reconstruction algorithm
- Atomic tritium source development
- Phase IV magnet and source design
- Study of neutrino oscillations
- Electronics and DAQ support for near detector upgrade
- Study of sterile neutrino oscillations very close to a nuclear research reactor
For more information about the experiments and the involvement of the ETAP groups please select the experiments on left side under Experiments or in the right menu. You can also get in touch with the corresponding contact person.
Dark Matter Searches
- Data analysis : Simulations, WIMP physics, detector physics, energy scale, back-
grounds and efficiencies - XENON1T and its Muon Veto, XENONnT and its Neutron Veto
- Development of future multi-ton liquid xenon detectors
- MainzTPC, Hardware and Simulations
- Compton Telescope: Simulations and Hardware
- Search for Axions and Axion-like Particles
- Developments for Transition Edge Detectors for the ALPS-II Experiment
- Developments for X-Ray photon detectors for the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)
For more information about the experiments and the involvement of the ETAP groups please select the experiments on left side under Experiments or in the right menu. You can also get in touch with the corresponding contact person.
High Energy Physics
- Higgs-Physics
- Searches for Dark Matter
- Searches for Supersymmetry and new particles
- Standard Model precision measurements
Prof. Dr. Volker Büscher
Prof. Dr. Lucia Masetti
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schott
Prof. Dr. Stefan Tapprogge
- Muon Veto Detector
- Online PC Farm
- Physics Analysis of rare and ultra-rare Kaon decays
For more information about the experiments and the involvement of the ETAP groups please select the experiments on left side under Experiments or in the right menu. You can also get in touch with the corresponding contact person.
German federal ministry for Education and Research supports Mainz research at CERN
