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The incoming Director-General of CERN, Mark Thomson, paid a flying visit to Nikhef on Monday, September 15. During a tour of the national institute in Amsterdam, he visited…

Ten years after the first ever detection of a gravitational wave, researchers from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) have confirmed a crucial insight into the surface of black…

A new laboratory in Maastricht will make the technology from the Einstein Telescope research accessible to the business community. Over the coming years, the new ETpathfinder Smart Skills…

In mid-August, a connection point for the KM3NeT neutrino detector was successfully installed on the seabed in the Mediterranean Sea near Toulon. Four detector lines are also connected…

An addition to the standards for network interface modules proposed by Nikhef will play an important role in the introduction of ultra-precise timing in data networks.  “This brings…

The deepest mysteries of the neutrino and the true nature of dark matter. These are two research topics being explored by Nikhef physicists who are receiving ENW-M grants…

Over the past two weeks, 18 new detection units for the KM3NeT neutrino detector have been installed on the seabed off the coast of Sicily and connected to…

Science funding organization NWO has awarded Veni grants to three Nikhef researchers to further develop their groundbreaking ideas. Each will receive a maximum of €320,000, sufficient for three…

The collaborating gravitational wave experiments LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) have reported the detection of the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves. The merger produced…

SURF is moving a significant part of its network from a commercial data center to the data center of Nikhef, one of its cooperative members and scientific partners….

Measurements with the ATLAS detector of proton-proton collisions in the LHC accelerator at CERN show that top-quarks sometimes establish a short-lived connection with their antiparticle. In doing so,…

For the first time ever oxygen ions are currently circulating in the LHC accelerator at CERN in Geneva for special experiments. All detectors are observing this unknown territory…

Discussions this week at the Open Symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics demonstrate strong progress towards ensuring that CERN remains a world leader in collider physics…

Nikhef director Jorgen D’Hondt kicked off the celebration of the institute’s 50th anniversary with a special video message. In it, he emphasises the family feeling within Nikhef. The…

Nikhef was recently involved in a successful test for high-speed scientific data transport from Amsterdam to Finland over a distance of 3,500 kilometers. This was announced by ICT…

Australian-born physicist Ashley McDougall has won the annual Jan Kluyver Prize for her thesis on her Nikhef research of the Higgs particle. This was announced on Monday at…

Physicists at the ATLAS experiment at CERN are beginning to gain insight into the field that produces the Higgs particle for the first time. This is earlier than…

Since this week, after the usual winter break, the LHC particle accelerator at CERN is back in business again for the experiments (among which three that Nikhef works…

Very optimistic about a big surprise, he is not. But the hunt for something new is wonderful work in itself, says VU professor of particle physics Wouter Hulsbergen….

At the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, researchers from the ATLAS experiment at CERN presented the results of their research that teaches us more about one of…