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Oxford physicists have demonstrated beam-driven plasma acceleration in the UK for the first time, a breakthrough that could transform the design of future particle colliders.

Researchers from the Department of Physics contribute to major advance in the search for dark matter and gravitational waves.

Head of Particle Physics, Professor Daniela Bortoletto, talks to Oxford alumnus Mark Thomson, CERN Director-General, about what is in store for CERN as it prepares for a major upgrade that will take 4 years.

A programme that lets sixth-form students analyse real data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider has secured further funding to expand its reach into more UK schools.

A new EPSRC-funded research project is bringing together the Department of Physics and the Department of Oncology.

Dr Babak Abi, Dr Farrukh Azfar and Dr Sam Henry have all been recognised for their work reporting the results from the measurement campaigns at Fermilab.

Professor Foster's latest book, Einstein: A Life in Science and Music, marries his two passions of particle physics and music and here he reflects on the role music played in Einstein's life.

Rsearchers from the Department of Physics were involved with the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology.

Dr Joseph Bateman, a DPhil alumnus of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Medical Physics Group PhD Prize for his thesis on detector development for FLASH radiotherapy dosimetry.

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

Professor Philip Burrows has been appointed Chair of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee (SPC), following his selection by the CERN Council at its September 2025 meeting.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have led a breakthrough study which has recorded the first observation of carbon-neutrino interactions; the findings open new frontiers in nuclear and particle physics.