Physics World journal nominates TU Darmstadt research success
Observation of the tetraneutron among the Top 10 Breakthroughs 2022
2022/12/14 by sip
The journal “Physics World” has nominated its ten “Breakthroughs of the Year 2022” in the field of physics. Among them is a research success in which TU Darmstadt played a leading role: the international team with Dr Meytal Duer and Professor Thomas Aumann from the Institute of Nuclear Physics had succeeded for the first time in creating an isolated four-neutron system and thus observing a neutral nucleus, the tetraneutron.
The team of scientists led by TU Darmstadt had used a new experimental method that differs from all previous experiments. The work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Centre 1245, and the results were published in the journal “Nature” in June. The “Breakthroughs of the Year” are selected by a panel of “Physics World” editors, who sifted through hundreds of physics publications for this purpose. The selections are research successes that, among other things, represent a significant advance in knowledge and are important for the further development of physics or for practical applications.
Long sought-after particle consisting of four neutrons discovered