News in Particle Physics 2013

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

18 October 2013

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South PoleThe Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration. IceCube is an enormous particle detector built into a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole.

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

9 October 2013

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanismFrançois Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass