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Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven will open ETpathfinder in Maastricht this afternoon. The state-of-the-art physics laboratory will serve as a testing ground for…

Particle researcher and professor Bob van Eijk, just retired, has always been a hands-on man. At ATLAS. At the University of Twente. In school projects. “Give me something…

On 31 October, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven submitted an application for the Einstein Telescope to the National Growth Fund, supported by…

This autumn, Nikhef’s magazine DIMENSIES focuses, among other things, on the Detector R&D department, the improved XENONnT detector in Italy and the stories of alumni who started their…

Once more, new results from the LHCb experiment at CERN leave room for doubts about the Standard Model of particle physics. It is possible that the electron and…

Nikhef researcher Sijbrand de Jong (Cosmic Rays group) is set to become the new Dean of the Faculty of Science of the Radboud University. On 1 December 2021,…

SRON and Nikhef receive an ENW-M grant from NWO for the development of detectors for the gravitational wave telescope LISA. The grant will enable them to further develop…

The KM3NeT neutrino detector in the Mediterranean deep sea is back on after new detector lines were added last week in the Italian ARCA section. In total, eight…

Forget the pictures in textbooks of the proton consisting of three quarks, two up and one down, plus some gluons. A new study by Nikhef theorist Juan Rojo…

Nikhef’s ambitions for four major scientific facilities have been recognized in the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure. Minister Van Engelshoven of Education and Science officially received the…

Dutch poets have captured the Standard Model of particle physics in twice seventeen poems about the elementary particles. The poetic Standard Model is published today in the Dutch…

Using new statistical techniques, the gravitational wave detectors of LIGO and Virgo have identified eight more suspected black hole collisions in existing measurement data. These include the heaviest…

The LHCb experiment at CERN has discovered a new particle consisting of four quarks, including two charm quarks. This is unusual: particles usually consist of two or three…

The two major competing experiments that have so far hunted for dark-matter particles are joining forces for the next step. This week, US-based LUX-ZEPLIN and European XENON are…

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research is honouring the plans of no fewer than three Nikhef researchers. With a VIDI grant of 800,000 euros each, they will develop…

About a hundred of the first thousand ATLAS publications had major input from Nikhef. We chose the six most important ones. On June 18, the ATLAS experiment at…

In theory, electrons, muons and tau-leptons are identical, apart from their mass. But measuring is knowing, and the ATLAS experiment is the first to use the LHC accelerator…

Half a century ago, physicists found the route to a modern particle theory. At a conference in Amsterdam. Almost unnoticed, just before lunch and the tourist outing. The…

On June 30th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) decided to include the Einstein Telescope in the 2021 upgrade of its roadmap. This confirms the relevance…

At Nikhef’s computing center in Amsterdam, a new world record has been set in the rapid storage and readout of computer data. With 6.55 million operations per second,…