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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…

At the end of May, Nikhef-PhD Anders Rehult won the award for best poster at the annual Trends in Theory conference of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical…

In this article, Nikhef researchers Sijbrand de Jong and Eric Laenen are interviewed about the Standard Model: It is the most successful theory in physics, but after fifty…

On 23 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science visited Maastricht. He also visited the gravitational wave laboratory ETpathfinder. In addition to the official part of the…

On Tuesday, May 17, Nikhef director Stan Bentvelsen explained on TV together with NWO chair Marcel Levi why the Einstein Telescope is such a beautiful and important project…

On the eve of the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Diederik Jekel of the NTR science program Atlas was one of the last people…

Several Nikhef physicists have responded and explained in the media to news of new measurements of the mass of the W particle. Those measurements fall outside the expectations…

The university computing collaboration SURF, together with Nikhef, Maastricht University and CERN, is investigating the possibilities of using quantum computers in the LHCb experiment in Geneva. SURF reports…

In this newest edition of PAPERCLIP, Marco de Beurs explains his thesis named “A top portal to new physics”. Marco did his research in the ATLAS-group at Nikhef….

On 15 March 2022, an international masterclass in particle physics was held at Nikhef. 17 students from the upper grades of VWO had the opportunity to learn more…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Marko Stamenkovic explains his thesis called ‘Charming Higgs Bosons‘. Marko worked on his thesis in the ATLAS programme at…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Brian Moser explains his thesis called ‘The Beauty and the Boost: a Higgs Boson Tale’. Brian worked on his…

Science website NEMOKennislink (Dutch only) visited the ET Pathfinder under construction in Maastricht. A test rig from Nikhef for the gravitational wave detectors of the future. For example,…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Alice Alfonsi explains her thesis called ‘A tale of a new generation’. Alice worked on her thesis in the…

In February 1992, a website went live for the first time in the Netherlands. That website was www.nikhef.nl, from the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics…