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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…

Measurements of gravitational waves can decide a profound dispute about the expansion rate of the universe. Collisions of black holes with neutron stars provide enough information for this….

Physicist Stefan Hild of Maastricht University and Nikhef will receive over 2 million euros from the European Research Council for new research into revolutionary new methods of detecting…

During a week-long campaign, five new detector lines of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope were installed in the deep sea off Sicily and connected to a new connection box…

The Netherlands eScience Center has honored two Nikhef software projects aimed at accelerating future discoveries in the particle world. Both projects focus on the use of graphics processors…

In the media, several Nikhef physicists reacted enthusiastically about the new measurements of the magnetic dipole moment of the muon at Fermilab, which were presented Wednesday. The measurements…

Senior physicists Fernando Ferroni of INFN in Italy and Jo van den Brand of Nikhef in The Netherlands have been appointed as the new Project Directorate for the…

The ATLAS detector at CERN has produced a new twice better estimate of the so-called self-coupling of the Higgs particle. This sensitivity to itself is the basis for…

The LHCb experiment at CERN might be seeing a glimpse of new physics. The experiment has found a serious indication in its measurements that electrons and their heavier…

Theoretical physicists at Nikhef and others have taken a new step in understanding the so-called neutrinoless double-beta decay. This decay in atomic nuclei has never been seen before,…

Physicist Samaya Nissanke of the University of Amsterdam and Nikhef will receive the prestigious Suffrage Award on 8 March International Women’s Day 2021. She will receive the accompanying…

The often heard complaint that particle physics is not yielding anything new is simply not true. In an essay in the magazine The Conversation Nikhef-physicist Patrick Koppenburg and…