National Institute for Subatomic Physics
Welcome to Nikhef. We are the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics. Our institute performs research into the elementary building blocks of our Universe, their mutual forces and the structure of space and time.
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Growing confidence in new physics at LHCb experiment
Thanks to more measurements, researchers from the LHCb experiment at CERN are becoming increasingly confident that they are seeing a real deviation from the Standard Model. “The hint…
Incoming CERN Director General Mark Thomson visits Nikhef
The incoming Director-General of CERN, Mark Thomson, paid a flying visit to Nikhef on Monday, September 15. During a tour of the national institute in Amsterdam, he visited…
Ten years after the first gravitational wave, there is a new breakthrough: Hawking was right
Ten years after the first ever detection of a gravitational wave, researchers from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) have confirmed a crucial insight into the surface of black…