News

The world’s collaborating gravitational wave detectors are publishing a catalogue of new observations today. According to the researchers, the GWTC-4 catalogue shows a “kaleidoscope of cosmic collisions”. The…

A team of Nikhef theorists has published a new study of so-called penguin diagrams that have detailed effects in studies of the asymmetry between matter and antimatter. The…

The Mechanical Technology department at Nikhef has produced the first series of six camera housings for the planned LISA gravitational wave detector in space. Instrument makers used computer-controlled…

Maastricht University has become a full member of the international LHCb experiment at CERN. The university was already an affiliated member of the collaboration through Nikhef. This was…

At CERN in Geneva, work has begun on cooling a 95-meter-long test setup for a new component of the even more powerful LHC accelerator.  Starting this summer, CERN’s…

INTERVIEW – As a boy from Amsterdam-East, he regularly attended the open days at the Nikhef particle physics laboratory. Now, computer scientist Stephen Swatman has won a prize…

A delegation from the French research organization for nuclear and particle research IN2P3 visited Nikhef in Amsterdam on Monday, February 16. During the day, the six delegation members…

Researchers at the Van Swinderen Institute in Groningen have discovered a new method for immobilizing individual molecules for precision studies. Their article has just been published in Physical…

Precision time technology from Nikhef, among others, plays a vital role in the new scientific time and frequency network of the collaborating Dutch universities, which was inaugurated last…

Theorists from Nikhef and other institutions have released an updated version of the FORM computer programme. This computer algebra software has been crucial to particle physics for decades….

Nikhef has joined the new European initiative in the field of scientific use of artificial intelligence. SCIANCE (AI in science) was formally launched in Brussels this week. The…

Master’s student in physics Meera Patel has been awarded the Olga Igonkina scholarship 2025 for her work on the dark matter detector XENONnT. The jury announced its decision…

It may look like Christmas decorations, but hundreds of flashing lights in the Nikhef entrance hall show live the impacts of particles in the deep sea off Toulon,…

After a wonderful 50th anniversary year in 2025, the management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a prosperous 2026. With beautiful physics,…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an indispensable technology in particle and astroparticle physics. To accelerate scientific discovery, Nikhef is establishing a dedicated AI R&D group to enable…

Nikhef director Jorgen D’Hondt has appointed two associate directors to support him in representing Nikhef in national and international forums in particle and astroparticle physics. The appointments were…

The CERN Council has released the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. These were finalised in early December during a session in Ascona, Switzerland. For the…

Nikhef researcher Tina Pollmann has received funding from NWO for a test setup that could prove crucial in the global hunt for dark matter. UvA lecturer Pollmann is…

The ALICE experiment at CERN has unravelled the formation of light atomic nuclei that are occasionally produced in collisions in the LHC accelerator. They are publishing their findings…

Theoretical physicist Jordy de Vries of the University of Amsterdam and Nikhef has been awarded an ERC grant for precision calculations on, among other things, three forms of…