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Professor Stephen Blundell

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

Aerial view of the SKAO GHQ, Jodrell Bank, at sunrise

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.

The Collider Detector at Fermilab

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.

Daniel Hynds sitting down on the grass reading a book outside with mountains in the background

Meet...Daniel Hynds

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Head and shoulders shot of Mark Jones

Meet...Mark Jones

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Figure 1: Candidate event for a Higgs decay to charm quarks. The two charm-tagged jets are shown as blue cones, and the two muons from a possible decay of a Z boson are shown in red.

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.

Girl conducting a science experiment

Girls explore science with Marie Curious

Department runs hands-on and interactive event for girls aged 12-14 years old

Professor Ard Louis

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

All winners and the committee from this year's PLANCKS

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

Dr Plamen Ivanov

EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov

Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

Figure illustrating quantum eggs

Commentary: Dr Berislav Buca on quantum eggs

In a letter published in Physical Review Letters, Dr Berislav Buca claims: an egg can actually unscramble itself – if it is quantum.

Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole

Black hole billiards in the centres of galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit.