New Head of APPEC
Paris, 9 January 2015
On January 9, 2015 the General Assembly of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium, APPEC1 , elected Frank Linde (director of Nikhef2  from 2004 to 2014) as its new Chair. He is taking over from Stavros Katsanevas (director of APC3 ), who was chairing APPEC since November 2012. Thomas Berghöfer (DESY4 ) was reappointed as General Secretar...

Goals and Challenges for APPEC's Scientific Advisory Committee
One of the first actions undertaken by the APPEC consortium in 2013 was the appointment of its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The main criterion for SAC membership, as established by the APPEC General Assembly (GA), was the internationally recognised competence of the chosen experts independently from their countries of or...

From Nikhef’s “Updates of the Experiments”: Latest developments in 2014 and expectations for the XENON Dark Matter program in 2015”
There has been a lot going on within the XENON collaboration during 2014. The project is soon to enter a new phase with the most sensitive experiment for dark matter detection. While the successful XENON100 detector continues to take data at the Gran Sasso unde...

 New Revelations on Dark Matter

A number of astrophysical measurements on the scale of galaxies to the entirety of the visible Universe, point towards the existence of some sort of dark matter that appears to comprise roughly a quarter of the energy density of the Universe. The nature of the particles which make up this dark matter is essentially unknown, however, making the chase t...

 
A Multi-Sensory Journey Where the Boundaries Disappear
Beyond the Limit” is hosted by the MUSE Science Museum in Trento, Italy, sponsored by the MUSE and the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the University of Trento.

The exhibition explores different themes, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach: ...