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The Higgs boson decaying into a pair of b-quarks

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
Professor Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Bortoletto founding member of QUP

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).
16 December 2021
Professor Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Bortoletto awarded IOP honorary fellowship

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics
29 November 2021
Kirsty Duffy with electronic racks used for MicroBooNE detector

First results show no hint of a sterile neutrino

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.
27 October 2021
Probing new physics with pairs of Higgs bosons

Why two Higgs are better than one

Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment.
18 October 2021
Neutrino mural at the Soudan Underground State Park

Dr Kirsty Duffy wins top UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

Dr Kirsty Duffy is one of eight Oxford University academics to have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme
8 September 2021
Nathan Jurik

Former Oxford physicist awarded 2021 Young Experimental Physicist Prize

Former Oxford physicist, Nathan Jurik, has been awarded this year’s European Physical Society’s Young Experimental Physicist Prize.
9 June 2021
View from the floor of the two walls M1 and M2 of the LHCb Muon detector

Subatomic particle first

Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery.
8 June 2021
Seophine Stanislaus

Meet...Seophine Stanislaus

Five minutes with Seophine Stanislaus, graduate student in Particle Physics
25 May 2021
The Muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall amidst electronics racks, the muon beamline, and other equipment.

Hints of new scientific phenomena

The Fermilab Muon g−2 experiment has released its first results showing the muon magnetic dipole moment differs from the theoretical prediction by a significant margin, confirming the results of an earlier experiment.
9 April 2021
LHCb

Growing hints of lepton-universality violation

The LHCb collaboration reveals strengthening evidence of a particle decay that deviates from the Standard Model.
23 March 2021
DUNE near detector

A tale of two detectors

As the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) reveals more details about its so-called ‘near detector’ at Fermilab, we take a look at what it is and what it might mean for physics.
15 March 2021

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