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Thursday 31. January 2013 In Memoriam Paul Kienle (1931-2013)
With the passing of Paul Kienle, former Director of the Stefan Meyer Institute, we lost an eminent scientist and pioneer in subatomic physics. He left us on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, few days after finishing his last scientific...
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In Memoriam Paul Kienle (1931-2013)
With the passing of Paul Kienle, former Director of the Stefan Meyer Institute, we lost an eminent scientist and pioneer in subatomic physics. He left us on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, few days after finishing his last scientific paper.
His vision to create new tools for the future is shown nicely by the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), now under construction, which is becoming one of the largest research facilities in the world, triggered by Paul Kienle during his directorship at GSI.
During his stay in Vienna, as the director of the Stefan Meyer Institute (SMI) from 2002 – 2004, he initiated and attended many exciting and fruitful physics meetings. We quickly learned to appreciate his broad knowledge and his passion in discussing ongoing and new physics projects.
It was a great privilege for us to work together with Paul Kienle and we like to express our gratitude for his tremendous impact to modern nuclear science, which was also extremely important for our Institute. We admire his enthusiasm in creating new methods and in triggering the work on new technologies to solve open problems in physics.We will miss the exciting and interesting discussions with him!
His open-mindedness and his creativity will be missed by all!
ERC Advanced Grant for Eberhard Widmann
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Eberhard Widmann, Director of the Stefan Meyer Institute for subatomic Physics recieved a Advanced Investigator Grant of the ERC (European Research Council).
His project "Hyperfine Structure of Antihydrogen HBAR-HFS" will be aided with about 2,6 million Euro over a period of five years. The ERC Advanced Grant is awarded for pioneering in fundamental research and is deemed to be the highest honor for european top scientists.
Willkommen
Das Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik widmet sich dem Studium fundamentaler Symmetrien und Wechselwirkungen, um folgende Fragen zu beantworten:
- Was sind die Eigenschaften der in der Natur vorkommenden Kräfte?
- Was ist der Ursprung der Masse des sichtbaren Universums?
- Warum besteht das aus dem Big Bang hervorgegangene Universum nur aus Materie und nicht auch aus Antimaterie?
Als Methode benutzen wir Präzisionsspektroskopie von exotischen Atomen (Atome, die anstelle eines Elektrons ein anderes Elementarteilchen wie z.B. ein Pion, ein Kaon oder ein Antiproton enthalten) und exotischen gebundenen Zuständen zwischen Mesonen und Kernen. Das SMI ist an mehreren internationalen Kollaborationen beteiligt, die ein breites Forschungsprogramm an führenden internationalen Beschleunigerzentren (CERN/Genf CH, LNF-INFN/Frascati IT, J-PARC/Tokai JP, GSI/Darmstadt DE und in der Zukunft FAIR/Darmstadt DE) durchführen.
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Welcome
The Stefan Meyer Institute (SMI) is devoted to basic research in the field of subatomic physics. Our research focuses on the study of fundamental symmetries and interactions, addressing the following questions:
- What are the properties of the forces that exist in nature?
- What is the origin of the masses of the visible universe?
- Why do the remains of the Big Bang consist only of matter and not also of antimatter?
We specialise in precision spectroscopy of exotic atoms (Atoms that contain another particle - e.g. an antiproton, kaon, muon or pion- in their shell instead of an electron) and exotic meson-nucleus bound states as an integral part of international collaborations at large-scale research facilities including CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), LNF-INFN (Frascati, Italy), J-PARC (Tokai, Japan), GSI (Darmstadt, Germany), and, in the future, FAIR (Darmstadt, Germany).
Location
Stefan-Meyer-Institut für subatomare Physik
Boltzmanngasse 3
1090 Vienna, Austria
phone (secretary) (+43 1) 4277 29701
fax (+43 1) 4277 9297
e-mail smi@oeaw.ac.at
