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Three large projects under the Nikhef flag receive NWO funding for research that explicitly pushes the boundaries of current physics. This involves faster detectors, precision measurements on the…

Astrophysicist Samaya Nissanke of the University of Amsterdam and Nikhef will be the Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics in 2024. This was announced by the Solvay Institutes…

The Italian-German particle physicist and Nikhef staff member Pamela Ferrari has been appointed professor of High Energy Physics at Radboud University in Nijmegen as of May 1. Ferrari…

Researchers from the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef and Utrecht University, among others, have gained clearer insight into the properties of the extremely compact material of which…

Programme leader David L. Groep of the Physics Data Processing group at Nikhef has been appointed as an extraordinary professor at Maastricht University. He will focus on research…

The seventh edition of Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES shows in a personal way how the discovery of the Higgs particle 10 years ago inspired people, and what it was…

Associate professor of experimental physics in Groningen and Nikhef researcher Steven Hoekstra receives a VICI grant for his work on the fundamental properties of the electron. This was…

Wesley is student informatica bij de Hogeschool Leiden en liep een technische stage op CERN voor 6 maanden, van september 2021 tot en met februari 2022. Hier vertelt…

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has for the first time found a real difference between the way the higgs particle decays to charm quarks or botton quarks. Such…

As of January 2022, Nikhef researcher Ivo van Vulpen will be appointed as professor by special appointment in science communication at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). Van…

Four young promising scientists from Nikhef receive a Veni grant from NWO. They will receive up to 280 thousand euros to further develop new research ideas. In this…

Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven will open ETpathfinder in Maastricht this afternoon. The state-of-the-art physics laboratory will serve as a testing ground for…

This autumn, Nikhef’s magazine DIMENSIES focuses, among other things, on the Detector R&D department, the improved XENONnT detector in Italy and the stories of alumni who started their…

Once more, new results from the LHCb experiment at CERN leave room for doubts about the Standard Model of particle physics. It is possible that the electron and…

Nikhef researcher Sijbrand de Jong (Cosmic Rays group) is set to become the new Dean of the Faculty of Science of the Radboud University. On 1 December 2021,…

The LHCb experiment at CERN has discovered a new particle consisting of four quarks, including two charm quarks. This is unusual: particles usually consist of two or three…

Half a century ago, physicists found the route to a modern particle theory. At a conference in Amsterdam. Almost unnoticed, just before lunch and the tourist outing. The…

On June 30th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) decided to include the Einstein Telescope in the 2021 upgrade of its roadmap. This confirms the relevance…

At Nikhef’s computing center in Amsterdam, a new world record has been set in the rapid storage and readout of computer data. With 6.55 million operations per second,…

The Higgs particle, discovered in 2012, theoretically gives matter particles their mass, but experimentally this has so far only been proven for the very heaviest quarks. With a…