Condensed Matter Research with Nuclear Probes and Ion Beams

Committee Research on Condensed Matter with Nuclear Probes and Ion Beams (KFSI) is an elected user representation with the aim of promoting research with nuclear probes and ion beams.

Save the date: Ion beam workshop 2020

Oct. 08-09, 2020, Jena

The ion beam workshop will take place in Jena on October 8th - 9th, 2020 this year. The scientific program will last about 1,5 days, and the rough planning is currently:

Wednesday October 7th, evening, "get together"
Thursday October 8th, starting at 9 a.m. with the scientific program
Friday October 9th, ending around 1 p.m. with the scientific program

Details will follow in March / April.

Mass spectrometry traces star dust

Iron-60 discovery in the Antarctic provides information on the environment of the solar system

The rare isotope iron-60 is produced by huge star explosions. Only a small proportion comes from remote stars. Researchers have now discovered iron-60 in the Antarctic for the first time. The scientists suggest that the iron isotope comes from the interstellar neighborhood.The snow samples were collected at the Kohnen Station in Antarctica, then chemically processed in Garching, at the Atominstitut Wien and at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and finally analysed in the accelerator laboratory (https://www.mll-muenchen.de/) at Garching. The results were published in https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.072701 [more]