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The ATLAS experiment at CERN has determined the mass of the Higgs particle to less than one promille accuracy, a record. This was announced at the Photon Lepton…

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva is likely to be out of operation for weeks after an electrical disturbance and emergency shutdown early Monday, July 17….

A minute fraction of Higgs particles produced at the LHC accelerator at CERN appears to decay into a Z particle and a photon. Clues to this come from…

A series of about a dozen soil borings combined with seismic surveys should, over the next two years, determine the exact geological composition of the soil within the…

On July 12 2023, the ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners in a special function organised as a part of the ALICE week collaboration meeting at…

Particle lab CERN is joining forces with European gravitational wave experts and companies to develop a prototype vacuum tube for the Einstein Telescope. CERN, thanks to its particle…

Nikhef researcher Keri Vos of Maastricht University has received an NWO-Vidi grant for her work on precision studies of heavy ‘beauty’ particles. This was announced by NWO on…

A team of European astronomers, together with Indian and Japanese colleagues, has for the first time found strong evidence of ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves, which probably come from pairs…

Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the USA win the 10th edition of Beamline for Schools In 2023, for the second time in…

On 20 June, Tsun Ho (Peter) Pang received the CAN-award for the best recent astroparticle physics thesis in the Netherlands. The award was handed out during the symposium…

Today the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN presented important results in the quest to understand the nature and origin of the so-called CP violation….

Electrons and muons can well be more different from each other than previously believed. That’s according to a new study by theorists at Nikhef, the VU and Maastricht…

Compared to before corona, Nikhef employees fly less. That’s what a new 2022 footprint study by the institute shows. The new study was made by environmental consulting firm…

This week the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has begun a new observing run with upgraded instruments, new and even more accurate signal models, and more advanced data analysis methods….

Science foundation NWO is awarding a research grant to Nikhef physicist Keri Vos, affiliated with Maastricht University. This was announced in The Hague. Vos is affiliated with the…

Former Nikhef PhD student Lodewijk Nauta wins the Jan Kluyver Prize 2023 or the best English-language abstract in his dissertation on the first measurements with the KM3NeT neutrino…

The Virgo detector for gravitational waves in Italy will not yet participate in the fourth round of observations by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra consortium starting end of May. The sensitivity…

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea was expanded by three new lines in a record 24 hours last week. It also features a section making other…

The Netherlands is contributing 2.7 million euros to further improvements to the Advanced Virgo detector for gravitational waves in Pisa. Science financier NWO is making funds available for…

The cover of DIMENSIES provides insight into one of the themes of the 9th edition of Nikhef magazine, namely the Nikhef group in Nijmegen. The Nijmegen high-energy physicists…