BNB certified research building

Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching near Munich

The historic Institute has found a modern research location for its experimental and theoretical departments.

History

The Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute) conducts basic physical research with a focus on elementary and astroparticle physics. The facility had been at its location in Munich-Freimann since 1958. Due to a presidential decision and based on an overall assessment of the Garching location, a relocation was planned in conjunction with a new building. This science policy decision was made with a view to the possibility of intensifying scientific exchange in a fruitful environment.

The new building for the MPI is now located next to the physics faculty of the TU Munich and the LMU working groups on the campus in Garching. It was designed for three experimental and three theoretical departments as well as various working groups.

The new building

With the aim of continually pushing the boundaries of physical knowledge, the Institute is one of the world's leading research institutions in particle physics. The smallest building blocks of matter are described in theoretical models about the structure of the world. The Institute's experiments use the large particle accelerators of international research centers such as CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) as well as the facilities of the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (Italy) and the La Palma Observatory (Spain).
 

No large-scale experiments are carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Physics itself, although smaller experiments are set up in preparation for the large-scale experiments. The Institute thus makes a significant contribution to the technical development and construction of individual components that are required to carry out individual large-scale experiments.