Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience - Alumni Industry Schools, prospective students and community Research Undergraduates Graduates International Year of Quantum Department of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme - Accelerator physics Astronomy and astrophysics Biological physics Climate physics Exoplanets and planetary physics Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics Fundamental particles and interactions Instrumentation Lasers and high energy density science Particle astrophysics & cosmology Photovoltaics and nanoscience Plasma physics Quantum information and computation Quantum materials Quantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department - Astrophysics Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Atomic and Laser Physics Condensed Matter Physics Particle Physics Professional and support services Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 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 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 Meet...Karolos Potamianos We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 December 2021 Professor Bortoletto awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics 29 November 2021 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 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 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 Professor Philip Burrows elected IoP Member of Council 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. 29 July 2021 Load More
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
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
Meet...Karolos Potamianos We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 December 2021
Professor Bortoletto awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics 29 November 2021
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
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
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
Professor Philip Burrows elected IoP Member of Council 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. 29 July 2021
