News in Particle Physics 2013
Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole
18 October 2013
The 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
François 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