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 Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 10 May 2022 Celebrating Astronomy Day Astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst, talks all things astronomy to celebrate Astronomy Day, 7 May 2022. 7 May 2022 Unusual new state of matter Writing in Nature, a team of physicists including three from Oxford - DPhil student Yves Kwan and Professors Shivaji Sondhi and Sid Parameswaran – report the emergence of an unusual new state of matter in a newly-explored moiré system 4 May 2022 Commentary: Professor Stephen Blundell on muons Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award 26 April 2022 Oxford to work on world's largest radio telescope A team from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of two from Oxford who will work on the crucial software and computer hardware for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the world's largest radio telescope. 11 April 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...Mark Jones We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 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 Girls explore science with Marie Curious Department runs hands-on and interactive event for girls aged 12-14 years old 4 April 2022 Commentary: Professor Ard Louis on symmetry in evolution Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper 28 March 2022 Oxford undergrads take second and third at PLANCKS 22 Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition 25 March 2022 Load More
Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 10 May 2022
Celebrating Astronomy Day Astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst, talks all things astronomy to celebrate Astronomy Day, 7 May 2022. 7 May 2022
Unusual new state of matter Writing in Nature, a team of physicists including three from Oxford - DPhil student Yves Kwan and Professors Shivaji Sondhi and Sid Parameswaran – report the emergence of an unusual new state of matter in a newly-explored moiré system 4 May 2022
Commentary: Professor Stephen Blundell on muons Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award 26 April 2022
Oxford to work on world's largest radio telescope A team from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of two from Oxford who will work on the crucial software and computer hardware for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the world's largest radio telescope. 11 April 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...Mark Jones We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 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
Girls explore science with Marie Curious Department runs hands-on and interactive event for girls aged 12-14 years old 4 April 2022
Commentary: Professor Ard Louis on symmetry in evolution Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper 28 March 2022
Oxford undergrads take second and third at PLANCKS 22 Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition 25 March 2022