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Researchers from the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef and Utrecht University, among others, have gained clearer insight into the properties of the extremely compact material of which…

Funding agency NWO has awarded computing time and storage capacity at the National Computer Facility to two Nikhef projects. These are the neutrino experiment ProtoDUNE and FuSE, a…

Nikhef researcher Prof. Eric Laenen is the new director of the UvA Institute of Physics (IoP), appointed for a period of three years. As director of the IoP,…

Programme leader David L. Groep of the Physics Data Processing group at Nikhef has been appointed as an extraordinary professor at Maastricht University. He will focus on research…

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, restarted today after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and modernization work….

The seventh edition of Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES shows in a personal way how the discovery of the Higgs particle 10 years ago inspired people, and what it was…

The Dutch government intends to conditionally allocate 42 million euros from the Dutch National Growth Fund to the Einstein Telescope, and is also reserving 870 million euros for…

In Pisa on Tuesday, the signatures were put on an agreement by which NWO-I becomes an official member of EGO, the European cooperation in the field of gravitational…

Associate professor of experimental physics in Groningen and Nikhef researcher Steven Hoekstra receives a VICI grant for his work on the fundamental properties of the electron. This was…

The National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef is deeply shocked by the Russian military attack on Ukraine and joins the sanctions and measures against Russia and Belarus.  Nikhef…

Utrecht-based particle physicist and Nikhef researcher dr. Marco van Leeuwen will be the new spokesperson for the ALICE experiment at CERN. This was decided by the collaboration on…

University lecturer and Nikhef researcher Jessica Steinlechner of Maastricht University is awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council for her research on advanced mirrors for gravitational…

In the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern France, a start has been made last week with the dismantling of the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The detector at…

The Einstein Telescope project proposal meets the entry criteria of the Dutch National Growth Fund and has been submitted to the Advisory Committee. The Ministers of Economic Affairs…

Theoretical physicist Eric Laenen of Nikhef has been appointed vice-president of the CERN-council, the highest governing body of the European particle lab. This was announced in Geneva. Laenen…

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has for the first time found a real difference between the way the higgs particle decays to charm quarks or botton quarks. Such…

PhD student Lex Greeven of Nikhef and Maastricht University has won the audience award for the best poster at the annual physics conference in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. This…

In the collisions of protons in the LHC accelerator at CERN, it is not only the up- and down-quarks in the proton that matter, but sometimes heavier quarks…

As of January 2022, Nikhef researcher Ivo van Vulpen will be appointed as professor by special appointment in science communication at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). Van…

Directors and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a happy and joyful year 2022. The institute is closed from december 27th 2021 until…