NIKHEF Annual ReportNIKHEF Annual 2006 NIKHEF Annual Report 2 0 0 6 Annual Report 2006 Colophon Publication edited for NIKHEF Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energie Fysica National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics Address: Postbus 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam Kruislaan 409, 1098 SJ Amsterdam Telephone: +31 20 592 2000 Fax: +31 20 592 5155 E-mail:
[email protected] Editors: Nicolo de Groot, Kees Huyser, Louk Lapikás & Gabby Zegers Layout/art-work: Kees Huyser Photos/illustrations: AMS-IX, Mateusz Atroszko, Ernst Bode, Marc de Boer, Gerjan Bobbink, CERN, DESY, Fermilab, Gary Fordham, Durk Gardenier, Peter Ginter, Aart Heijboer, Kees Huyser, IBM, Gordon Lim, Ton Minnen/NFP, Clara Natoli, PANalytical, Sony Ericsson, Marcel Vervoort, Rob Waterhouse, Carlos Zaragoza Cover: ANTARES event by Aart Heijboer URL: http://www.nikhef.nl NIKHEF is the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics in the Netherlands, in which the Foundation for Fundamen- tal Research on Matter (FOM), the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU) and the Universiteit Utrecht (UU) collaborate. NIKHEF co-ordinates and supports all activities in experimental elementary particle or high-energy physics in the Netherlands. NIKHEF participates in the preparation of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, notably ATLAS, LHCb and ALICE. NIKHEF is actively involved in experiments in the USA (DØ at Fermilab, BaBar at SLAC and STAR at RHIC) and in Germany at DESY (ZEUS and HERMES). Furthermore, astroparticle physics is part of NIKHEF’s scientific programme, through participation in the Pierre Auger large area cosmic ray detection facility in Argentina and through participation in the ANTARES project: a neutrino telescope under construc- tion in the Mediterranean Sea.