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At CERN, lead nuclei have been going around the LHC accelerator at full beam power for the first time since early this week. The lab in Geneva announced…

Belgium, the Netherlands and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia will prepare a joint consortium to establish the Einstein Telescope in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion. During the ET Ministerial…

In the Italian section of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope, nine new detector lines were placed on the deep sea floor last week. This brings the total in that…

Nikhef physicists at the University of Groningen have developed a technique to capture nanoparticles and characterize their shape and mass. This may be useful for the hunt for…

Effective Sept. 1, Nikhef physicist and vibration expert Alessandro Bertolini has been appointed professor of Gravitational Wave Detection Technologies at Maastricht University. Bertolini, Italian by birth, is considered…

Can six quarks make a stable particle that might form the dark matter in the universe? Nikhef physicist Patrick Koppenburg is going to find out in the coming…

Science council NWO has awarded Veni grants to two physicists who will be working at Nikhef. They can spend the next three years further developing their ideas about…

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…