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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…

The intended investment of 42 million euros from the Dutch National Growth Fund for the Einstein Telescope is now definite. This was announced today. In April, the Dutch…

The very first new raw measurement data from the ATLAS detector at CERN were stored Tuesday from Geneva at computer center SARA in Amsterdam. From there, the data…

Astrophysicist Samaya Nissanke of the University of Amsterdam and Nikhef will be the Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics in 2024. This was announced by the Solvay Institutes…

The Large Hadron Collider is ready to once again start delivering proton collisions to experiments, this time at an unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, marking the start of…

Exactly ten years ago today, the discovery of the Higgs particle was announced. We celebrate this with interviews with (astro)particle researchers from then and now… What is their…

The landmark discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider exactly ten years ago, and the progress made since then to determine its properties, have allowed…

Nikhef-researcher Sebastian Steinlechner at Maastricht University received an NWO-VIDI grant for his work on the laser system used in the proposed Einstein Telescope for the detection of gravitational…

With a public event at De Balie in Amsterdam and a laser show on the highest data tower at Amsterdam Science Park, Nikhef will celebrate the tenth anniversary…

Approximately thirty virtual tours with thousands of visitors at the underground ATLAS detector Nikhef researcher Clara Nellist led in recent years, mostly in corona times. On Thursday she…