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CRC 1660 News

September 25, 2026

From September 21–25, we returned to Schönblick in Schwäbisch Gmünd for the CRC Summer School 2026. Around 75 participants from our CRC and associated projects came together for a week of lectures and discussions spanning dispersion theory, exotic atoms and fundamental interactions, complemented by a session on academic writing in science.

Alongside the scientific programme, the Summer School once again offered plenty of opportunities to exchange ideas, connect across projects and career stages, and strengthen the CRC community.

July 15, 2026
The DFG has approved the new CRC 1660 project N04, led by Tyler Kutz, strengthening the experimental research programme in Pillar N. The project will investigate the dipole resonance region in atomic nuclei using high-resolution electron scattering with the MAGIX spectrometer at the MESA accelerator.  These measurements will provide new insights into the nuclear symmetry energy and the structure of collective nuclear excitations, while complementing the CRC’s precision studies of nuclear matter and supporting future parity-violation experiments.  Current PhD student Alen Gajer has begun working on N04, and a second PhD student expected to join next semester.
July 13, 2026

Maurice Anderson, PhD student in our CRC, received the First Prize for Best Poster Presentation at the MESON 2026 Conference.

Maurice was recognized for his poster “Dark Photon Search at BESIII using Initial State Radiation.” The work presents a new search for the production and visible decay of a massive dark photon using BESIII data. The analysis exploits the newly acquired BESIII data taken at the Ψ(3770) resonance to search for a narrow dark photon resonance in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum.

The award recognizes the scientific quality of Maurice’s work and highlights the contributions of CRC 1660’s early-career researchers to the international particle physics community. Congratulations to Maurice on this well-deserved achievement!