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Ian Shipsey, Henry Moseley Centenary Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of Department, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work in experimental particle physics.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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).

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Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics

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.

Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment.