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Dutch poets have captured the Standard Model of particle physics in twice seventeen poems about the elementary particles. The poetic Standard Model is published today in the Dutch…

Using new statistical techniques, the gravitational wave detectors of LIGO and Virgo have identified eight more suspected black hole collisions in existing measurement data. These include the heaviest…

The LHCb experiment at CERN has discovered a new particle consisting of four quarks, including two charm quarks. This is unusual: particles usually consist of two or three…

The two major competing experiments that have so far hunted for dark-matter particles are joining forces for the next step. This week, US-based LUX-ZEPLIN and European XENON are…

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research is honouring the plans of no fewer than three Nikhef researchers. With a VIDI grant of 800,000 euros each, they will develop…

About a hundred of the first thousand ATLAS publications had major input from Nikhef. We chose the six most important ones. On June 18, the ATLAS experiment at…

In theory, electrons, muons and tau-leptons are identical, apart from their mass. But measuring is knowing, and the ATLAS experiment is the first to use the LHC accelerator…

Half a century ago, physicists found the route to a modern particle theory. At a conference in Amsterdam. Almost unnoticed, just before lunch and the tourist outing. The…

On June 30th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) decided to include the Einstein Telescope in the 2021 upgrade of its roadmap. This confirms the relevance…

At Nikhef’s computing center in Amsterdam, a new world record has been set in the rapid storage and readout of computer data. With 6.55 million operations per second,…

For the first time, gravitational waves have been observed created a black hole eating a neutron star seemingly in one bite. Until now, only waves from merging pairs…

Today, CERN held a ‘first stone’ ceremony for Science Gateway, CERN’s new visitors centre. CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and architect Renzo Piano, together with representatives from CERN Member…

The Higgs particle, discovered in 2012, theoretically gives matter particles their mass, but experimentally this has so far only been proven for the very heaviest quarks. With a…

The LHCb experiment at the LHC accelerator at CERN is again reporting measurements that appear to deviate from what the standard model of particle physics predicts. This could…

Today, 31 May, part of the Nikhef building in Amsterdam will be handed over to construction team partner Strukton. This marks the official start of the renovation. It’s…

This year’s Olga Igonkina travel grant for young Russian talent in particle physics goes to PhD student Anna Danilina of Moscow State University and the LHCb experiment at…

In the observations of gravitational waves with the LIGO and Virgo detectors, there is no evidence so far of gravitational-wave lensing. This is what the collaboration concludes in…

About 15 percent of post-docs and PhD students lack the motivation to continue working since the lockdown due to covid 19. Some 40 percent find themselves not productive…

This spring’s Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES is all about looking forward. “We are looking ahead again,” writes director Stan Bentvelsen in his foreword to the public magazine, which is…

As of this Monday, four of the first six frames of light-sensitive SciFi detectors are in place at the LHCb experiment at CERN. SciFi was partly designed and…