The capabilities of ab initio many-body calculations for nuclear structure and reactions have expanded dramatically within recent years. We have seen first converged calculations for nuclei as heavy as Pb208, a first attempt at a mass table up to the iron region, as well as studies of fusion and reactions of light nuclei that are of astrophysical importance. Efforts are now focusing on nuclei...
The high intensity proton accelerator facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland provides high intensities of pions, muons and ultracold neutrons for fundamental atomic, nuclear and particle physics measurements. Aspects of the facility will be shown and some of the latest experimental results will be presented.
The Standard Model of particle physics is incredibly successful and glaringly incomplete. Among the questions left open is the striking imbalance of matter and antimatter in our universe, which inspires experiments to compare the fundamental properties of matter/antimatter conjugates with high precision. The BASE collaboration at the antiproton decelerator of CERN is performing such...
In 2017, a multimessenger era started with the first gravitational wave detection from the merger of two neutron stars (GW170817) and the rich electromagnetic follow-up. The most exciting electromagnetic counterpart was the kilonova. This provides an answer to the long-standing question of how and where heavy elements are produced in the universe. The neutron-rich material ejected during the...
