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Theoretical physicist Eric Laenen of Nikhef has been appointed vice-president of the CERN-council, the highest governing body of the European particle lab. This was announced in Geneva. Laenen…

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…

PhD student Lex Greeven of Nikhef and Maastricht University has won the audience award for the best poster at the annual physics conference in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. This…

In the collisions of protons in the LHC accelerator at CERN, it is not only the up- and down-quarks in the proton that matter, but sometimes heavier quarks…

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…

Directors and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a happy and joyful year 2022. The institute is closed from december 27th 2021 until…

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…

Maria Bader wins the Jan Kluyver Prize 2021 for the best English-language summary in her thesis on seismic noise models for gravity wave detectors such as Advanced Virgo…

In the Mediterranean Sea near Toulon, four new detector lines were added to neutrino telescope KM3NeT in the deep sea last week. There, a total of ten lines…

The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy have added a new chapter to the growing catalog of space-time quakes. In total, the list…

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…

Particle researcher and professor Bob van Eijk, just retired, has always been a hands-on man. At ATLAS. At the University of Twente. In school projects. “Give me something…

On 31 October, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven submitted an application for the Einstein Telescope to the National Growth Fund, supported by…

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,…

SRON and Nikhef receive an ENW-M grant from NWO for the development of detectors for the gravitational wave telescope LISA. The grant will enable them to further develop…

The KM3NeT neutrino detector in the Mediterranean deep sea is back on after new detector lines were added last week in the Italian ARCA section. In total, eight…

Forget the pictures in textbooks of the proton consisting of three quarks, two up and one down, plus some gluons. A new study by Nikhef theorist Juan Rojo…

Nikhef’s ambitions for four major scientific facilities have been recognized in the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure. Minister Van Engelshoven of Education and Science officially received the…