Patrick Koppenburg 🐧
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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧
@koppenburg.ch
Nikhef physicist at LHCb Experiment at CERN. Exotic Hadrons, European strategy for particle physics, Sustainable Accelerators. Chair of CERN users committee ACCU.
🐧📷🎓💻💫.
Born at 327.55 ppm CO₂. Président du PVL La Côte. 🟢🔵
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Hello to those who found me here. I am a particle physicist at CERN working on the @lhcb.bsky.social experiment and on future accelerators. In particular I worry about sustainability.

I'm also chairing the advisory committee of the 12000 CERN users.
First Brazilian win in the alpine ski world cup 🇧🇷👏👏👏
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Very uninformative sign on the motorway by Geneva. Halle 6 of what?
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Cette question est très importante pour moi - veuillez la signer et la partager : act.campax.org/petitions/un...
Jetzt Nachtzug nach Malmö retten!
1. Klimaschutz durch echte Alternativen statt leere Versprechen Ein Nachtzug ersetzt Kurzstreckenflüge – und reduziert so den CO₂-Ausstoss. Gemäss Informationen der SBB verursacht eine Fahrt mit dem N...
act.campax.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I confirm.
From a survey on arXiv
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted by Patrick Koppenburg 🐧
Ooooops indeed.
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I did not expect orthopaedics to appear on hep-ex 😅
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I heard the russian version of this joke two days ago. @zachweinersmith.bsky.social must be spying on my conversations. I see no other explanation.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
On this day 50 years ago, John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard and Dimitri Nanopoulos submitted the paper "A Phenomenological Profile of the Higgs Boson" which was first to tell experimentalists how to find the Higgs boson.

#OTD #historyofphysics #physics ⚛️🧪
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
How much are you willing to pay to deserve being called 'clueless monkey' by the owner of the network ?
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Aiguille Verte de toutes les couleurs.

#mountains #montblanc #photography
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
LHCb rocking kaon physics again.
Search for K⁰→π⁺π⁻μ⁺μ⁻ decays at LHCb arxiv.org/abs/2511.02619 - Upper limits are set for the first time on the branching fractions B(K⁰s→π⁺π⁻μ⁺μ⁻)<1.4×10⁻⁹ and B(K⁰L→π⁺π⁻μ⁺μ⁻)<6.6×10⁻⁷, at the 90% confidence level.
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great news for the LHC experiments, and more generally for faster detectors www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nwo-...
www.nikhef.nl
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Patrick Koppenburg 🐧
Mark Thomson, the next Director General @cern.bsky.social talked about collider physics at CERN and right now, Robbert Dijkgraaf is taking us through the future of European Science #nikhef50
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy birthday @nikhef.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Still life with moka pot.

My picture, AI enhanced.
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
From now on I live in canton "Total Amount".
#bug #formsFail
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🧐 There is a direct link from #grokipedia to my website, but accessed in 2021.
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🎵 Snow on the Jura 🎵🎸
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
On trouve de ces trucs quand on range un peu. @itspetergabriel.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🤔 CMS also measure R(J/ψ) on the high side. That's the ratio of Bc⁺→J/ψτν to
Bc⁺→J/ψμν. LHCb saw an excess compared to the Standard Model, now CMS has it too.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21559
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
If football players were ranked like scientists, based on statistical data, this would be the ideal premier league team. No keeper, no defender.
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Finally the rumours become public: The CEPC Chinese collider project is on hold.

cerncourier.com/a/cepc-matur...
October 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
135 à 0 pour le service citoyen. @pvlfr.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Assemblée des délégués @pvlfr.bsky.social @grunliberale.bsky.social à Delémont.
Merci à @pvljura.bsky.social pour l'accueil.
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM