At the Institute of Nuclear Physics, we conduct research in the field of hadron and nuclear physics, accelerator physics and astroparticle physics. To this end, our scientists in the experimental work groups are organized into four collaborations, which currently operate the two experiments A1 and A2 at the MAMI accelerator and are setting up the MAGIX and P2 experiments at the MESA accelerator.

Thanks to our broad, complementary experimental and theoretical capabilities and the high precision of our results, we are regularly successful in the competition for funding: For example, the CRC 1660 “Hadrons and Nuclei as Discovery Tools” was launched in October 2024. Our research topics also make a substantial contribution to the PRISMA+ cluster of excellence funded by the German federal and state government’s Excellence Initiative.

Our various working groups are also involved in other large-scale experiments outside Mainz, for example by developing detectors or analyzing measurement data with special algorithms.

We also have a close connection to the neighboring Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) – an institutional cooperation between the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.