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Physicists from Cern's ATLAS experiment have been able to probe the Higgs coupling to b- and c-quarks simultaneously using direct Higgs decays – a huge improvement on previous measurements.

Professor Brian Foster, Donald H Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics, comments on the findings published in Nature today, 2 March 2022, from DESY’s FLASHForward experiment.

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The ATLAS collaboration, of which Oxford is a founding member, has shed new light on the behaviour of partons – the quarks and gluons inside protons.

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been named one of a team of principal investigators (PI) spearheading the brand new International Centre for Quantum-field Measurement Systems of Studies of the Universe and Particles (QUP).

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Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics

New results from Oxford researchers, together with collaborators on the MicroBooNE experiment, show no signs of a theorised fourth kind of neutrino known as the sterile neutrino.

Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment.

Dr Kirsty Duffy is one of eight Oxford University academics to have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme

Professor Philip Burrows has been elected a Member of the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (IoP). Burrows is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science.

The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter.