For years, Jan de Boer, a PhD student at Nikhef in Groningen, worked intensively on the installation of a new detector in the LHCb experiment at CERN. He…
Experiments with the LHC accelerator have limited energy, while it is clear that there may be unknown particles or forces further away. With effective field theory SMEFT, it…
More than four-fifths of all mass in the universe is not ordinary matter. There are many ideas about what then this dark matter could be. Nikhef PhD student…
Gravitational wave detectors measure not only vibrations in Einstein’s space and time, but also random terrestrial vibrations and noise. PhD student Harsh Norola from Nikhef developed a new…
Higgs particles are extremely unstable and even have such a short lifespan that it is difficult to measure their lifetime. Nikhef PhD candidate Zef Wolffs used measurements taken…
On Monday 26 January, Nikhef master’s student Niels ter Linden gave online viewers a tour of the ATLAS detector at CERN. You can watch it again on YouTube….
In broad terms, the standard model of particle physics accurately predicts the results of experiments in accelerators such as those at CERN. But does this also apply to…
At the end of 2025, Nikhef researcher Ernst-Jan Buis received funding for a new idea to detect high-energy neutrinos: via the sound their rare impacts make in seawater….
Nikhef PhD student Greta Brianti from the University of Twente is conducting research with the ATLAS detector at CERN into the decay of Higgs particles into b and…
Nikhef PhD candidate Carolina da Silva Bolognani studies the decay of particles via the weak interaction into other particles. In this process, particles change their “flavour”, as physicists…
Nikhef is one of the leading names in computing in the Netherlands, with expertise and extensive hardware in numerous projects, from networks and supercomputers to artificial intelligence clusters….
PhD candidate Clara Gatius from Nikhef used the KM3NeT neutrino detector at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to search for dark matter. Spoiler alert: she didn’t succeed,…
PhD candidate and Nikhef engineer Jesse van Dongen spent four years working on recipes for vibration-free mounting of the mirrors used in gravitational wave detectors. Noise suppression is…
Data network architect Tristan Suerink from Nikhef (not pictured) was a guest on the ICT podcast Met Nerds om Tafel to discuss ColoClue, an association of enthusiastic server…
Neutrinos are elementary particles that are almost impossible to capture. But when they collide, they do make a sound. With an NWO-grant Nikhef researcher Ernst-Jan Buis is going…
How do gravitational wave researchers detect the subtle vibrations of space and time among all the vibrations in the environment? By creating sample signals of what they are…
‘Europe expert’ Geert Jan Hahn spoke at Nikhef with Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, CEO of Einstein Telescope in the Netherlands. He hopes to raise €2.4 billion next year to increase…
Last Saturday, 4 October, the annual Science Day took place at Amsterdam Science Park — and once again it was a great success. Nikhef opened its doors to…
Nikhef/UvA experimental astroparticle physicist Auke Pieter Colijn this week was the fifth guest in the NPO Radio1 night programmes Back to School with NTR Wetenschap. In a two-hour…
In a new, third season of BNR radio podcast In de Diepte Nikhef researcher Ivo van Vulpen takes listeners to the heart of matter itself. In five episodes…
