The particle accelerator at CERN shut down weeks earlier than normal in winter to save energy – and costs. NRC asked physicists from Nikhef and others for ideas…
The American science magazine Quanta is running a major article this month on FORM, a computer algebra program widely used in theoretical particle physics. The program is the…
For its weekend supplement, the daily newspaper Trouw spoke with Nikhef researcher Patrick Decowski about the hunt for dark matter and delicately reminded him of his statement a…
Nikhef’s research program into the properties and sources of neutrinos plays a role in two newly published booklets, both from the stable of New Scientist. Both books are…
The November issue of the Dutch Journal of Physics NTvN features two articles on particle physics, written by researchers at Nikhef. The occasion is the restart of the…
Great things can happen when high school students get involved with scientific research, and that is exactly what CERN and DESY want to achieve by organizing the Beamline…
Nikhef’s sustainability ambition was announced today on the Nikhef website: Nikhef climate neutral in 2030. The development rests on five pillars that were chosen based on the CO2…
Science writer Govert Schilling sailed on the Mediterranean Sea with the ship that lowers lines of the giant KM3NeT neutrino telescope to the sea floor. Many of those…
“My brain doesn’t need to be kept in strong water, I’ve already done that myself. In abundance and to my complete satisfaction.” So said Dutch mental arithmetic prodigy…
The proton seems an ordinary building block of matter, but in reality turns out to be a particle full of surprises. Nikhef theorist and VU professor Juan Rojo…
Nikhef physicist Frank Linde was one of the discoverers of the Higgs particle ten years ago, and now he is trying with all his might to get the…
The prestigious American science journal QuantaMagazine published an article on Nikhef researcher Juan Rojo’s new studies of the interior of the proton. Earlier this summer, he and an…
Last Saturday, October 1, Nikhef opened some of its doors during the Amsterdam Science Park Open Day 2022. Some doors, because the Nikhef building is currently undergoing an…
Nikhef particle researcher Ivo van Vulpen spoke for an hour (in Dutch) with the creators of the upbeat weekly podcast Verrukkelijke Wetenschap. With just one question: what are…
Three years ago Bob Stienen, at the time a Nikhef PhD student, started his YouTube channel where he playfully explains particle physics in great detail. In recent weeks,…
On July 4 and 5 we celebrated, respectively, the 10-year anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs particle and the start of Run3 of the Large Hadron Collider…
Does a Higgs boson feel other Higgs bosons? In this new PAPERCLIP video Carlo Pandini explains what his ATLAS paper is about.
During the festivities surrounding the 10-year old Higgs boson, Nikhef had prepared a special projection for the evenings on the tallest building in Amsterdam Science Park, Digital Realty….
On the 4th of July 2022 it is 10 years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced. Nikhef researcher Tristan du Pree tells you all…
Lodewijk Nauta, Phd at Nikhef, defended his thesis on Wednesday 8 June 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Lodewijk is a PhD student in the KM3NeT group at…
