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The first 800 Gbit/s router for a super-fast data network at Nikhef arrives at Science Park in Amsterdam this week. Engineers from SURF and Nikhef will set up…

Intersections between scientific fields, between institutions and between science and education are the focus of the latest Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES, which comes out today. “At successful interfaces, new…

The KM3NeT neutrino detector at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is in principle also capable of seeing signals from dark matter from our own Galaxy. This is…

The ALICE experiment at CERN has recorded the first collisions of lead nuclei with record energy in the new measurement period with the LHC accelerator. Last Friday, for…

The Timepix chip developed at CERN for particle detectors, also plays a part in the NASA Artemis mission to the Moon. In July 1969, just a few days…

For the first time, the ATLAS experiment at CERN has actually measured how long a Higgs particle exists before it disintegrates. The measurement was presented Wednesday at a…

Nikhef has chosen design firm Letter Z Design in Rijswijk to develop an in-house exhibition about the research institute in its renovated building in Amsterdam. The contract to…

Nikhef in Amsterdam is this week hosting the ATLAS Flavor-Tagging workshop 2022. Some seventy experts will discuss the latest techniques for spotting quarks in the proton collisions at…

In a nerve-wracking operation of days, the heart of the revamped LHCb detector at CERN closed precisely around the proton beam in the LHC accelerator for the first…

The LHCb experiment at CERN has found possible deviations from particle theory that are consistent with what other experiments are seeing. That may be another clue to new…

Senior physicists Andreas Freise of Nikhef in The Netherlands has been appointed as Project Director for the international Einstein Telescope (ET) organization. The Einstein Telescope will be a…

In light of the current global energy supply and cost crisis, and with a view to fulfilling its social responsibility, CERN will be implementing measures that will significantly…

As of 1 September, Nikhef-physicist Juan Rojo has been appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His chair is embedded in the Physics and Astronomy…

A column of three vibrating trucks is slowly driving through southern Limburg these weeks to map the structure of the subsurface in preparation for the possible construction of…

The underground XENON experiment in Gran Sasso, Italy, can not only capture dark matter, but is also suitable for studying the deeper nature of neutrinos. That’s the conclusions…

Nikhef researcher Dr Auke Pieter Colijn has been appointed professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam. Colijn will hold the chair for Experimental Techniques in Astroparticle Physics….

Researchers at Nikhef and others have found the first evidence that not only up- and down quarks exist inside the proton, but also medium-heavy charm quarks. Their analysis…

A quantum-flavoured milestone in high energy physics: the LHCb collaboration at CERN reports its first quantum computing-related work. In a publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics,…

Three large projects under the Nikhef flag receive NWO funding for research that explicitly pushes the boundaries of current physics. This involves faster detectors, precision measurements on the…

The XENON experiment in Gran Sasso that hunts for signs of dark matter has self-destructed an earlier anomaly in the data after intense scrutiny. The spike that appeared…