Nikhef Ph.D. candidate Maricke Flierman subjected new techniques for detecting extremely rare particle interactions—such as those in dark matter dual-phase gas detectors like XENON and its successors—to rigorous…
On June 29, the Large Hadron Collider will be shut down and prepared for an upgrade that will take years to complete. In this Quest article, Nikhef researcher…
On May 22, the CERN Council decided to move forward with plans to build a new super-particle accelerator for electrons and positrons: the underground Future Circular Collider, with…
Nikhef PhD student Joost van Hofslot from the University of Groningen built one of the key components of the eEDM experiment in Groningen. This experiment is searching for…
On April 23, the government allocated 25 million euros for the expansion of the ET Pathfinder laboratory in Maastricht. This will enable the lab to test techniques for…
Gravitational wave detectors are susceptible to all kinds of noise and interference. PhD candidate Luise Kranzhoff studied techniques in Maastricht to reduce this noise, using vibration-free cooling and…
CERN Courier interviewed Nikhef alumnus Jos Vermaseren. Het is the creator of one of the most used computer algebra programmes in theoretical physics, FORM. “The most important tool…
Nikhef postdoc Tom Dooney is cleaning gravitational wave data with the help of AI at the GRASP institute in Utrecht. He explains the tricks he developed as a…
On paper, the decay of a B meson into a tau particle and a neutrino reveals a great deal about the difference between matter and antimatter. But can…
In the US, work is underway on the DUNE neutrino experiment, which will fire neutrinos from Fermilab towards a detector 1,300 kilometres away. Nikhef PhD student Vikas Gupta…
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…
