The research programme funded by NWO is a collaboration between the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef), the University of Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Twente. The UT is represented by Bob van Eijk, a professor in High Energy in the research group Energy Materials and Systems.
The goal of the research is to further our understanding of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle that was discovered at CERN in 2012 and that is still surrounded by many unknowns. The consortium will look into developing new techniques that could determine the properties of the Higgs boson more precisely. For that, the scientists will be using the ATLAS detector, the largest particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
