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Theoretical physicists at Nikhef, together with colleagues from the U.S., have developed an improved calculation method for radioactive double-beta decay in atomic nuclei. This should help experiments gain…

NWO has awarded Veni grants to two ambitious Nikhef research projects focused on the innovative detection of gravitational waves and of dark matter using the ATLAS detector. NWO…

Large-scale experiments at CERN and the KM3NeT neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea are generating far more—and more complex—measurement data than the current computing infrastructure can handle. NWO…

Four more detector strings have been added to the KM3NeT neutrino detector in the deep sea off the coast of Toulon. The French section of the particle telescope…

The VELO subdetector, which for many years was one of the central components of the LHCb experiment at CERN, is back at Nikhef. This showcase of Nikhef technology…

The ENW board has approved sixteen applications in the ENW-M Open Competition. Nikhef researcher Melissa van Beekveld is one of the recipients, and will use this grant to…

Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics…

Today at Nikhef in Amsterdam, the first event specifically for PhD students and postdocs is taking place, designed to bring the youngest generations of Nikhef researchers closer to…

The proton is one of the building blocks of all matter, but its internal structure is still not well understood. Nikhef physicist Juan Rojo will explore the inner…

Particle physicist Marco van Leeuwen will become the new Nikhef program director for the ALICE experiment effective July 1. He succeeds Raimond Snellings, who will remain in his…

The Nikhef eEDM experiment in Groningen, which is searching for asymmetry in the electron, has published its first EDM measurement and is now ready for rapid improvements. The…

A new software package for modeling laser interferometers such as Virgo and LIGO has been launched at an Einstein Telescope conference in Aachen. Nikhef is the driving force…

Innoseis, an Amsterdam-based developer of high-tech vibration sensors on a chip, has secured six million euros in private investment through the investment firm FORWARD.one. This was announced today….

At CERN, the detectors at the LHC are conducting their final round of measurements before a three-year shutdown for a major overhaul of the accelerator. The LHC, the…

Researchers from the LHCb experiment announced today at the Beauty2026 conference in Maastricht the discovery of a long-sought-after third particle containing two charm quarks. This omega-cc particle was…

If he were given a bag of money to spend on a particle accelerator, Jorgen D’Hondt wouldn’t automatically put it toward more particles and higher collision energies. Perhaps…

This week, the international conference Beauty2026 is being held in Maastricht under the auspices of Nikhef. Around a hundred specialists in the field of quark physics are participating…

The collaborating gravitational-wave detectors around the world—LIGO, Virgo, and Kagra—have added 161 new detections to their catalog of scientific results. The detections date from the period April 2024…

At a special meeting today in Budapest, CERN’s member states updated their vision for the future of particle physics. A future, larger particle accelerator at CERN is now…

It is unknown whether the electric charge inside elementary particles is perfectly symmetrically distributed around their spin axis. Theoretical physicists from Nikhef and other institutions have now developed…