Laura Baudis

If you're in the Zurich area, join us for a special Schrödinger Colloquium on Monday. “From Atoms to Cosmos” will celebrate 100 y of Schrödinger equation, bridging chemistry, physics and cosmology. A surprise quantum dance event will follow in the Lichthof, with Priscilla Roeck & Killian Haselbeck

So far so good

Yes I should prepare my lectures for next week (semester start), I should read a PhD thesis, among others… but this was my main project for today - happy valentines ;)

Nice article, by Adam Begley, about Julian Barnes and his new book, Departure(s), in the @theatlantic.com “We must believe in love, just as we must believe in free will and objective truth.”

time ;)

Xenoscope, a tall xenon TPC, and its support structure

A new run with Xenoscope, a 2.6 m tall, two-phase xenon tome projection chamber, will start soon. Now the TPC is being reassembled and it looks almost like new ;-)

Muons are wonderful particles. Happy to be part of the new National Centre of Competence in Research "Muoniverse" www.muoniverse.ch, hosted by PSI & UZH. Muoniverse is one of the six funded new centres (www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/JE...), connecting science, engineering and arts. More details soon!

The energy spectrum of the first LEGEND-200 dataset, corresponding to 61.0 kg yr of germanium exposure, above the  39-Ar 𝑄_𝛽 =565  keV. The white histogram shows events passing quality and muon anticoincidence cuts and with energy deposited in one single HPGe detector. The main radioactive background contributors are indicated in green. The gray and red histograms show the subsets of events passing the PSD cut and additionally the LAr anticoincidence cut, respectively. The inset shows a close-up around the region of interest for 0⁢𝜈⁢𝛽⁢𝛽 decay with finer binning. The expected contribution from the 2⁢𝜈⁢𝛽⁢𝛽 decay of 76-Ge corresponds to the solid blue line. The events used to set a constraint on the 0⁢𝜈⁢𝛽⁢𝛽 decay rate are contained by the analysis window, marked in green. Only two significant 𝛾 peaks (shaded areas) are expected within this window, and the corresponding 10 keV wide energy regions are excluded from the statistical analysis.

The first LEGEND-200 results are now published in @physrevlett.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
No evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay,
with a lower limit on the 76-Ge half-life of 1.9 x 10^26 y. This corresponds to an upper limit on the Majorana ν mass of m_ββ < 75 - 200 meV

Using the Hubble Space Telescope 🔭, a team of astronomers have discovered a starless, gas-laden dark matter cloud believed to be a relic from the dawn of galaxy formation - the first verified discovery of its kind anywhere in the Universe ☁️. Check it out: https://ow.ly/e0WV50XT9Og #astronomy

You need to align with Polaris and then you can use the guiding scope for corrections

I meant photons (but also photos ;)

Plenty of photos here last night, but mostly from the moon ;)

It moves! We can watch as the Kepler supernova remnant changes over a quarter of century in X-rays from Chandra. #aas247
chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...

Sydney Opera House

This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022

In Memory of Katherine Wright | Physics Magazine We pay tribute to our friend and colleague, whose journalistic talent and commitment to inclusivity left an indelible mark on&nbsp;Physics Magazine. &nbsp;

Our colleague Katherine Wright, who began as an editor for PRL and went on to explore her passion as a great writer for
@physicsmagazine.bsky.social, passed away this fall from cancer, far too young. Here is a tribute to her: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

If you're in Zurich, join us for today's Physics Colloquium at the @ethz.ch campus: Prof. Teresa Montaruli, from Université de Genève, will talk about "The Future of the Highest Energy Astrophysics with Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos"

colloquium.phys.ethz.ch/programme/cu...

Congratulations Sera!

Group picture in the Irchel Lichthof

New group picture taken yesterday (Sana is missing)

Thank you Nikita, very kind :)

I certainly enjoyed the meeting and I learned so much! Thank you again for the invitation :)

The mesoSPIM 10-year Symposium Day 1: Monday, October 13-th , Day 2: Tuesday, October 14-th, Day 3: Wednesday, October 15-th | Careum Auditorium

Beautiful day in Zurich for the start of the 10 Years of mesoSPIM workshop at the Careum this morning: www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/... - organised by @mesospim.bsky.social

Study for life

Extract from Robert Hofstadter's Nobel Lecture on "The Electron-Scattering Method and Its Application to the Structure of Nuclei and Nucleons"

Electron-proton scattering: cross section versus scattering angle for 188 MeV electrons. Theoretical curves and experimental data.

Reading another famous Nobel Lecture, from 1961, for my introductory lecture to electron-nucleus and electron-nucleon scattering this morning (#KT-I) www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Congratulations to my wonderful colleague John Clarke! And to Berkeley, and to UC. And to everyone who still believes that foundational research is worth investing in

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis! Very good news for quantum sensor based dark matter experiments :)

Radon Removal in XENONnT down to the Solar Neutrino Level Using advanced cryogenic distillation, the XENONnT experiment cuts radon levels in its 10-tonne liquid xenon detector to just 430 atoms per tonne, enabling ultrapure conditions for detecting faint dar...

With XENONnT we reached a very low radon level, equivalent to about 430 222-Rn atoms per tonne of xenon. For the first time, the radon induced background rate is similar to the event rate due to solar neutrinos (via neutrino-electron scattering): link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

If you’re in Zurich, support the students’ demo against budget cuts in education - October 1, Helvetiaplatz www.vauz.uzh.ch/de/News/01.1...

Full coherence at fifty – CERN Courier The CONUS+ collaboration presents evidence for CEνNS in the fully coherent regime.

CEνNS: an “act of hubris” fifty years ago, now observed by several experiments with neutrinos from stopped pion beams, nuclear reactors and the Sun: cerncourier.com/full-coheren...

A collage of photos showing scientists and engineers working at SNOLAB on the DEAP-3600 experiment. Team members in blue cleanroom suits and orange or white helmets are operating equipment, handling cryogenic systems, monitoring instruments, and connecting wires. The central images highlight the detector and filling system used for the liquid argon fill.

Fresh from the underground: the third argon fill at DEAP-3600 is now complete ✅. The detector is filled to full capacity and ready for the next steps!
Work continues at @snolabscience.bsky.social
#teamwork #darkmatter