Konstantin Sukharnikov Scientific instrumentation

A hobby. An independent overview compiled from public sources by a science and space enthusiast. I am not involved in these missions or facilities; my own work is detector electronics at European XFEL. My projects →

Results

Notable scientific results from large facilities and space missions: what was found, with the paper (DOI or arXiv) and the press release where there is one.

November 2026

  1. 2 Nov 2026Particle physicsALPS II at DESY in Hamburg, a "light shining through a wall" experiment: first science results of its search for light axion-like particles — PRL, 10.1103/61sw-k3bc

October 2026

  1. 30 Oct 2026DetectorsAn iLGAD sensor from PSI detects soft X-rays down to the nitrogen K-edge — preprint arXiv:2610.42064
  2. 29 Oct 2026Space scienceJuno: Jupiter protects itself from the solar wind with a system of plasma waves and several shock regions (paper in Nature Communications, 31 July) — ScienceDaily; mission page: Juno
  3. 8 Oct 2026X-ray lasersThree-dimensional imaging of single membrane-protein complexes in vacuum with an X-ray laser — preprint arXiv:2610.11729
  4. 6 Oct 2026NeutrinosNobel Prize in Physics for Francis Halzen, for IceCube and the discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos — Nobel Prize; facility page: IceCube
  5. Oct 2026Gravitational wavesLimits on scalar, vector and tensor ultralight dark matter from gravitational-wave interferometer data — Nature Physics (research articles)

July to September 2026

  1. 7 Aug 2026Laser physicsCorrelated electrons push high-harmonic generation in the X-ray range beyond the single-electron limit — Wang S. et al., Nature Photonics 20, 1092–1098, 10.1038/s41566-026-01976-2 (press release in October: ScienceDaily)
  2. 22 Jul 2026Space scienceJuno: first measurements of the temperature below Io's surface — Mission Juno
  3. 5 Jul 2026Space scienceHayabusa2: flyby of asteroid Torifune, which turns out to have two lobes — Sci.News; mission page: Hayabusa2#

January to June 2026

  1. 29 Jun 2026TelescopesThe Rubin Observatory begins its ten-year LSST survey — Princeton LSST
  2. Jun 2026NeutrinosJUNO: first physics result (Nature, cover): with 59 days of data, the precision on two oscillation parameters improves by about a third — China Daily
  3. 2026NeutrinosKM3NeT: a blazar interpretation of the ~220 PeV neutrino (JCAP) — PDF
  4. 28 Jan 2026X-ray lasersLasing of a cavity-based X-ray source (XFELO) at European XFEL: Rauer P. et al., Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source, Nature 650, 93–96 — 10.1038/s41586-025-10025-x, CFEL
  5. Jan 2026NeutrinosIceCube Upgrade: deployment completed — UW News

2025, for context

  1. Dec 2025X-ray lasersLCLS: close to 100,000 pulses per second (93 kHz) — InMenlo
  2. 2025Gravitational wavesLVK: the GWTC-4.0 catalogue (O4a, 128 new events) — LVK
  3. 10 Apr 2025NeutrinosKATRIN: neutrino mass below 0.45 eV (Science) — KATRIN
  4. Feb 2025NeutrinosKM3NeT: a neutrino of ~220 PeV (Nature) — Harvard

As of 4 Nov 2026. A preprint is marked as such until it is published.