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2018.11.08

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data … »

2018.10.04

Det tidlige univers: Begyndelsen var flydende

Partikelfysikerne ved Niels Bohr Institutet har opnået nye resultater i arbejdet ved LHC, hvor de … »

2018.08.06

Big Bang til Naturfag

I dag mandag den 6. august 2018 tages der hul på en 2 dages workshop i København og Århus for 350 … »

2018.07.26

Nye observationer kæder gigantiske stjernekollisioner sammen med hjemløse gammaglimt

Forskere fra Niels Bohr Institutet ved Københavns Universitet har været involveret i opdagelsen af … »

2018.07.13

Astrofysikere jubler over løsning af 100 år gammel gåde

Et storstilet forskningsprojekt, huset under Sydpolens is, løser 100 år gammel gåde ved at finde en … »

2018.07.12

IceCube Finds Evidence of the First High Energy Neutrino Source

An international collaboration of scientists, including a team from the Niels Bohr Institute in … »

2018.05.14

Cosmology Prize to the Planck Team

The Gruber Foundation is pleased to present the 2018 Cosmology Prize to the Planck Team, and to … »

2018.04.25

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr … »

2018.01.30

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group … »

2017.12.22

Årets forskningsgennembrud 2017

Årets videnskabelige forskningsgennembrud i 2017 i de internationalt anerkendte tidsskrifter, … »

2017.11.23

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team … »

2017.10.17

Neutronstjerners sammenstød rystede universet

For første gang er det lykkedes at opfange tyngdebølger såvel som lys fra to kolliderende … »

2017.10.16

Nu er det bevist: Her kommer de tunge grundstoffer fra

Opdagelsen af en kilonova fremkommet ved sammenstødet mellem to neutronstjerner bringer forskerne et … »

2017.10.16

Astronomerne har fået en ekstra sans

Nu er det for første gang lykkedes at detektere tyngdebølger såvel som elektromagnetiske stråling … »

2017.10.16

Sådan gjorde de: Den største astronomiske opdagelse i nyere tid

En videnskabelig sensation kom i hus, da tusindvis af forskere samarbejdede om at måle tyngdebølger … »

2017.08.23

ERC Starting Grant for Jacob Bourjaily

Jacob Bourjaily, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Niels Bohr International Academy, has been … »

2017.07.17

Discovery PhD student wins Young Scientist Award

Vojtech Pacik, PhD student at the Discovery Center, wins the Young Scientist Award at the 17th … »

2017.04.24

Undervisnings- og Forskningsminister Søren Pind besøger CERN

Minister Søren Pind og en dansk ministeriel delegation besøger CERN, tirsdag d. 25. April. Søren … »

2017.04.06

Subir Sarkar the 4th Winner of the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award 2017

Prof. Subir Sarkar, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, … »

2016.11.14

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje member of EU science committee

Professor Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Center for Particel Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute has been … »

2016.09.21

First step in the Deep Space mission

Deep Space is a project that will use a new specially designed telescope to look far into space in … »

2016.09.16

Deep-Space

The first part of the deployment of the Deep-Space experiment in Greenland is now completed … »

2016.09.13

PhD course - Frontiers in particle physics: Flavour physics

The PhD course aims primarily at theoretical and experimental particle or astro-particle physics PhD … »

2016.08.31

Mohamed Rameez wins the 2016 CHIPP prize

Congratulations to newly arrived postdoc Mohamed Rameez for winning the 2016 CHIPP prize for … »

2016.08.23

Scientist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75

Denmark’s most famous and beloved physicist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75 on the 25th of August. … »

2016.08.08

The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced

Some of the most abundant particles in the universe are the so-called ghost particles, neutrinos, … »

2016.04.01

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at … »

2016.02.09

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead … »

2016.01.26

Jason Koskinen has got a Villum grant of 4,9 MDKK

Jason Koskinen, assistant professor in the research group Ice Cube has received a grant of 4.9 … »

2015.12.18

First result at LHC from lead-lead collisions

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN submits today on the electronic preprint … »

2015.11.25

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN … »

2015.08.31

Evidence for astrophysical neutrinos published - "the birth of neutrino astronomy".

In an article in Physical Review Letters ( arxiv.org/abs/1507.04005 ), the IceCube collaboration … »

2015.06.03

CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

The 27 km long underground particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is once … »

2015.04.16

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

The Earth is constantly bombarded by billions of neutrinos, which zip right through the entire … »

2015.03.12

CERN starting the LHC accelerator up again to solve new mysteries

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready … »

2014.11.04

CERN Council selects next Director General

At its 173rd Closed Session on November 4th, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola … »

2014.11.04

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, … »

2014.10.13

Six million DKK to a researcher at the Discovery Center

Stefania Xella has received a grant of approximately 6 million kroner from YDUN under the Danish … »

2014.09.29

CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime … »

2014.07.15

The ALICE group receives 6,5 million DKK from FNU

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, head of the ALICE group has received a grant of 6½ million DKK from The … »

2014.06.23

ESOF 2014 conference in Copenhagen

Fabiola Gianotti (former spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and … »

2014.04.29

Research inspired by Ciaran Williams and collaborators makes front-page news at CERN

Research inspired by Ciaran Williams and collaborators makes front-page news at CERN last week when … »

2014.01.13

Physics World Top 10 Breakthrough of the year 2013

Scientists working on the European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope are listed on the Physics … »

2013.12.04

Niels Bohr Professor Subir Sarkar and Discovery Center scientist Jason Koskinen publish in Science

The first ever detection of high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos was reported by the IceCube … »

2013.11.28

The ATLAS experiment at CERN announces the strongest evidence so far that the Higgs gives mass to matter particles

The Discovery tau ATLAS team has been involved in laying the grounds for a new result from ATLAS, … »

2013.11.01

Fabiola Gianotti awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour

The LHC accelerator is running on ‘woman power’, such is a saying CERN. One of the great top female … »

2013.10.18

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration. … »

2013.10.17

Discovery Center becomes full member of the IceCube Experiment

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, embedded down to 2.5 km deep under the South Pole, is the world's … »

2013.10.09

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the … »

2013.09.30

Discovery Center receives 40 million kroner

The Discovery Center for Particle Physics at NBI has received a grant of 40 million kroner from the … »

2013.07.04

Discovery PhD student receives Dirac Diploma and Best Student Award in Erice

At the recent International School of Subnuclear Physics "Reflections on the next step for the LHC" … »

2013.05.11

Discovery goes to the South Pole

The Discovery Center has joined the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) … »

2013.03.22

Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe

Discovery Center is part of the eagerly awaited release of Planck data and results. Results that in … »

2013.02.14

LHC Run I over - now awaits Run II at full energy in 2015

This morning, the 14th of February 2013, CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first running … »

2013.02.07

Nobel Laureate David Gross will be Visiting Professor at the Discovery Center for three months this spring

Professor David Gross from the University of California in Santa Barbara will be visiting the … »

2013.01.29

Jens-Jørgen Gaardhøje Chairman of the Discovery board has been awarded the prestigious French Order of Chivalry

Professor Jens-Jørgen Gaardhøje, the Niels Bohr Institute, Chairman of the Discovery board, has … »

2013.01.22

Discovery student wins prestigious EU grant for CERN

Christine Hartmann, PhD-student at the Discovery Center has received a 9-month EU Fellowship to … »

2012.11.22

Discovery Center organizes Nordic PhD Winter School in Gausdal

40 Nordic students will provide intense courses in neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, … »

2012.09.17

The Discovery Center goes to Quark Matter

Researchers from the Discovery Center present new results at the Quark Matter (QM) 2012 … »

2012.09.14

CERN experiments may reveal new state of matter for the 'glue particles', the gluons

At the LHC accelerator at CERN, collisions between protons and lead nuclei were established for the … »

2012.09.13

First p-Pb collision with the LHC

During a special test run, the LHC collided a beam of protons with a beam of lead-ions for the first … »

2012.09.07

Mysterious haze seen by the Planck satellite

ESA's Planck mission (in which also Discovery scientists are invovled) has detected a mysterious … »

2012.08.20

Christine Hartmann wins honorable price

Soon-to-be PhD-student at the Discovery Center, Christine Hartmann, has won this year's Kif-Price … »

2012.08.09

Discovery PhD student hunts for magnetic monopoles

Morten Dam Jørgensen from the Discovery Center has next to his work at the ATLAS Experiment been … »

2012.08.05

Danish Summer Students at CERN

Each year undergraduate students from all the CERN member states can apply to spend their summer at … »

2012.07.04

Gennembrud - vi har fundet en Higgs partikel

Discovery Centeret er med i sensationel opdagelse af en ny partikel. Konklusionen er klar – der er … »

2012.07.04

Breakthrough – the Higgs has been found

So there it is – the Higgs, the mysterious particle that causes all things to have a mass. After 45 … »

2012.07.02

Higgs press conference - Live transmission from CERN

Wednesday July 4th the LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS present their latest results in the hunt for … »

2012.06.22

Discovery Center Scientific Associate Subir Sarkar receives Niels Bohr Professorship

The Danish National Research Foundation has awarded Professor Subir Sarkar froim Oxford University a … »

2012.06.05

Amplitude Calculations Using Algebraic Geometry

In a recent paper (ArXiv 1205.5707) Yang Zhang, a post-doc at the Discovery Center, has demonstrated … »

2012.05.31

Exciting new collaboration

The Planck team of the Discovery Center has startet a collaboration with Subir Sarkar (University of … »

2012.05.28

Remarkable extension of the Planck LFI instrument

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) of the Planck satellite has recently been extended for 6 more … »

2012.04.10

Discovery Center is host of major international conference

During the week of April 10-13 close to one hundred international scientists gather at the Discovery … »

2012.03.30

Researchers from Discovery in "Danskernes Akademi"

Researchers from the Discovery Center contributes to "Danskernes Akademi" on DR2. CERN is the … »

2012.03.15

Rencontres de Moriond 2012 - Particle Physics Conference

The purpose of the Rencontres de Moriond is to discuss recent findings and new ideas in physics in a … »

2012.01.23

Highly succesful heavy-ion run

The second heavy ion run with lead+lead collisions at E=2.76 TeV per nucleon pair took place in … »

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