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Maximilian Attems
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Theoretical Physicist (University of Amsterdam & NikhefTheory) studying out-of-equilibrium LHC plasma, ante #MSCA @CERN
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Nieuw kunstwerk bij de ingang van het @nikhef.bsky.social. Gisteren onthuld door de kunstenaar, Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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With a successful operation on the high seas last week, the French segment of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope was further expanded to 33 detector lines. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/succ... @km3net.bsky.social
Successful expansion of the KM3NeT underwater neutrino telescope - Nikhef
With a successful operation on the high seas last week, the French segment of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope was further expanded to 33 detector lines. A total of...
www.nikhef.nl
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
InitialStages conference in Taipei strikes with new light ion data from O-O and Ne-Ne collisions

#LHC #CERN #initialstagestw2025
September 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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#GW230814 is such a beautifully loud signal. An signal-to-noise ration of 42 using just one detector! That is louder than GW170817 observed with three. It is amazing the progress the detectors are making, and the science that these measurements can bring

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The loudest #GravitationalWave in #GWTC4 is #GW230814

Detected with only Livingston, it was still about twice as loud as GW150914!

Being loud should enable precision tests of general relativity, but with only one detector, you need to be careful with the analysis

ligo.org/science-summ...

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September 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
new luminosity records at #LHC proton proton collisions both per 24 hours and 7 day rate:
September 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Petra Cini, composer and pianist, gave a special @nikhef.bsky.social theory seminar on musical representations: violence, purity and mathematics

#MusicalMetaphors #GroupTheory #SO3
July 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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💥💥 Double detonation! 

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice.

The fingerprint that points to this mechanism is represented by two separate shells of calcium.  

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2511/

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July 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Licia Verde with her Jocelyn Bell Burnell medal.

#EAS2025
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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🎉 We’re celebrating our 50th birthday on 30 May! For half a century, we’ve been serving Europe, inspiring its citizens and exploring the cosmos. Check out our #50YearsOfESA web site for stories, archive images and details of events coming up in the year.

🔗 esa.int/About_Us/50_...
May 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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On June 17th, 2025 @nikhef.bsky.social celebrates its 50th anniversary 🥳 

In 1998 when the accelerator MEA-AmPS stopped the sections K&H were integrated. The institute name changed to: National Institute for Subatomic Physics.
NIKHEF will built at DESY detectors for the ZEUS & HERMES experiments.
May 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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💣 The Muon g-2 theory initiative dropped their update. Bottom line: the g-2 anomaly is gone. arxiv.org/abs/2505.21476

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May 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Devastating news for science funding 🧪

Physics funding in particular is down 85% ⚛️

Please consider calling your representatives if you haven't already

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Jets, particle sprays coming from quarks and gluons, can't easily pass through the blob that is the quark-gluon plasma, a phenomenon called "jet quenching". This #CMSPaper investigates if that also happens with an alternative method where the angles between two jets are used arxiv.org/abs/2504.08507
May 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Jets, particle sprays coming from quarks and gluons, can't easily pass through the blob that is the quark-gluon plasma, a phenomenon called "jet quenching". This #CMSPaper investigates if that also happens with an alternative method where the angles between two jets are used arxiv.org/abs/2504.08507
May 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Great to have the US push forward a muon collider.

In 20 years!? 😀

bsky.app/profile/simo...
May 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Measurement of the branching fraction ratio Rk at large dilepton invariant mass arxiv.org/abs/2505.03483 - A test of lepton universality between muons and electrons using B⁺→K⁺ℓ⁺ℓ⁻ decays with the dilepton invariant-mass-squared region above 14.3 GeV²/c⁴ is consistent with the prediction of unity.
May 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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One of the problems with the standard model is that we use different mathematics for low-energy than for high-energy strong force calculations. The transition region is not so easy. #CMSPaper 1392 measures the transition region for the first time in LHC heavy ion collisions arxiv.org/abs/2503.19993
April 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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📣 We have beam in the tunnel 💫

Today, the Large Hadron Collider received the first particle beams of 2025. #BeamTime
April 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The LHC experiment collaborations #AtCERN receive Breakthrough Prize

The prize is awarded to ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on #LHCRun2 data up to July 2024.

Read more: home.cern/news/press-r...
April 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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KM3NeT detects the highest energy neutrino ever observed
The KM3NeT Collaboration announces the detection from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea of a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 PeV
www.nikhef.nl/en/news/km3net-detects-the-highest-energy-neutrino-ever-observed
KM3NeT detects the highest energy neutrino ever observed - Nikhef
The KM3NeT Collaboration announces the detection from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea of a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 PeV An extraordinary event...
www.nikhef.nl
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬

On 11 February, we celebrate the important contributions of women to the STEM disciplines.

On this occasion, we asked six female scientists what science means to them: home.cern/news/news/cern/international-day-women-and-girls-science-2025
February 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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📢 Big news coming up!

🗓️ Tune into it on Wednesday 12th of Feb, at 16:50 CET to hear about some exciting KM3NeT results!

🔗 Details can be found on the website: www.km3net.org/km3net-webin...
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM