Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesInternational Year of QuantumDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Oxford to play key role in pioneering experiment at CERN The John Adams Institute, part of the Department of Physics, is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support the participation of UK institutions in CERN's AWAKE experiment. 31 October 2022 Professor Philip Burrows elected Chair of HL-LHC Collaboration Board Professor Philip Burrows has been elected Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board. 19 October 2022 Providing opportunities for physicists of the future Big Data: ATLAS is recruiting schools and colleges now offering students the opportunity to work with research data direct from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. 4 October 2022 All systems go for dark matter detector LUX-ZEPLIN The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. 11 July 2022 Higgs@10 Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, particle physicists at CERN announced they had independently observed a new particle: the Higgs boson. Oxford researchers were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role since. 4 July 2022 Professor Ian Shipsey elected Fellow of the Royal Society Ian Shipsey, Henry Moseley Centenary Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of Department, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work in experimental particle physics. 10 May 2022 New measurement challenges Standard Model A team of scientists have performed the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the force-carrying W boson, which is responsible for nuclear decay and fusion reactions in the sun. 7 April 2022 Meet...Daniel Hynds We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 April 2022 New ATLAS search for Higgs decays to charm quarks 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. 5 April 2022 Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings 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. 2 March 2022 Meet...Alan Barr We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 1 February 2022 ATLAS insight into internal structure of proton 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. 19 January 2022 Load More
Oxford to play key role in pioneering experiment at CERN The John Adams Institute, part of the Department of Physics, is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support the participation of UK institutions in CERN's AWAKE experiment. 31 October 2022
Professor Philip Burrows elected Chair of HL-LHC Collaboration Board Professor Philip Burrows has been elected Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board. 19 October 2022
Providing opportunities for physicists of the future Big Data: ATLAS is recruiting schools and colleges now offering students the opportunity to work with research data direct from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. 4 October 2022
All systems go for dark matter detector LUX-ZEPLIN The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. 11 July 2022
Higgs@10 Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, particle physicists at CERN announced they had independently observed a new particle: the Higgs boson. Oxford researchers were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role since. 4 July 2022
Professor Ian Shipsey elected Fellow of the Royal Society Ian Shipsey, Henry Moseley Centenary Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of Department, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work in experimental particle physics. 10 May 2022
New measurement challenges Standard Model A team of scientists have performed the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the force-carrying W boson, which is responsible for nuclear decay and fusion reactions in the sun. 7 April 2022
Meet...Daniel Hynds We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 April 2022
New ATLAS search for Higgs decays to charm quarks 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. 5 April 2022
Commentary: Foster on FLASHForward findings 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. 2 March 2022
Meet...Alan Barr We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 1 February 2022
ATLAS insight into internal structure of proton 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. 19 January 2022
