Nikhef Theory Group

Andreas Juettner @cern gives @_nikhef theory seminar on "Exclusive or inclusive? The lattice might have the answer..." #LatticeQCD #CKMmatrix #V_cb

Oleksii Mikulenko gives @_nikhef theory seminar on precision search for Heavy Neutral Leptons #NewParticle #DarkMatter #SHIPexperiment

Congratulations to Franz Herzog for 2024 EU ERC Consolidator Grant on Feynman Graph Expansions for high Precision #QCD ##ERCCoG inspirehep.net/authors/1078232

Alica Rogelj gives @_nikhef theory talk on the evolution of gauge-invariant scalar perturbations from inflation to reheating. arXiv:2407.17074 #inflation #HubbleHorizon #HeavyScalar

Last Saturday we hosted the Nikhef Science Day, and we got to show science lovers all the cool research we do in the field of particle physics!

From 1st January 2025, Nikhef researcher Juan Rojo will be the new Head of the Physics and Astronomy department of @VU_Science Congratulations, Juan! nikhef.nl/en/news/nikhef… @NWONieuws @NikhefTheory

#CERNScienceGateway featured on @TIME's list of the #WorldGreatestPlaces of 2024. Today, TIME revealed the annual list, which highlights 100 extraordinary destinations to visit and stay. Illustration by Alessandro Gottardo for TIME Read more: time.com/6992395/cern-s…

Nikhef researcher Melissa van Beekveld will be developing innovative simulations for particle collisions with her Veni grant... nikhef.nl/en/news/veni-g… @NWONieuws

Four young promising scientists from Nikhef receive a Veni grant from NWO. They will receive up to € 320,000 to further develop new research ideas. nikhef.nl/en/news/veni-g…

Federica Devoto @UniofOxford gives @NikhefTheory seminar on Five parton scattering in massless QCD and its high energy limit arXiv:2311.09870 #QuantumChromoDynamics #HigherLoops #Analytics

Prof. Dr. Jorgen D'Hondt has been appointed director of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef. He succeeds current director Prof. Dr. Stan Bentvelsen, whose second term expires at the end of this year. nikhef.nl/en/news/jorgen… @NWONieuws

The theory day out at Leiden @NikhefTheory @_nikhef with exercise at the Boulderhal Krachtstof (sport activity option) was a real success: many boulders were solved/climbed and everyone joined safe the common dinner #nikhef #bouldering #leiden #PhysicistClimb

I am currently working on a Flavour physics project, centered on the f0(980), a scalar particle without a well-defined model for its internal structure. We are trying to extract some hints about its nature through rare B meson decays.

Every Tuesday, we introduce one of our group members. This is Jaime's story: I am Jaime, a Spanish Master's student currently finishing my MSc thesis at Nikhef. I enjoy windsurfing, volleyball, cooking and videogames. I also love traveling to try local food!

Apart from particle physics, I like to sail and swim, play tennis, write and read, and walk in the mountains.

Apart from that, I have just returned from a few months in Rome, where I was working on implementing small-x resummation in the predictions for neutrino fluxes coming from charm production at ATLAS. Two separate but related projects!

Every Tuesday, we introduce one of our group members. This is Eva's story: Hi, I’m Eva and I’m a master student with Juan Rojo in the theory group. I am working on modelling LHC neutrino scattering at the Forward Physics Facility.

In my free time I like nothing more than stalking birds. Fun fact: murmuration of starlings (a truly astonishing phenomenon) can be modeled by means of similar computer techniques that I use to model particle collisions!

I like to predict the behaviour of particles in particle collisions. I make such predictions by developing simulation tools. Without such tools, we would not be able to decipher particle-collision data and find out new cool stuff about the building blocks of our universe.

Every Tuesday, we introduce one of our group members. This is Melissa’s story: I am Melissa van Beekveld (@MCvBeekveld), the newest staff member of the Nikhef theory group. I joined last October, after a postdoc at the @UniofOxford.