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Professor Tony Bell FRS

Royal Society honours Professor Bell FRS

Professor Tony Bell FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for his seminal contributions to theoretical developments of cosmic ray acceleration and origins.

LZ’s outer photomultiplier tubes collect light from background particle interactions

New record in search for dark matter

The latest results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, the world's most sensitive dark matter detector located nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, narrow down the possibilities for a leading dark matter candidate.

Sparshita Dey

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14 December 2023

The Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue).

A new window on the cosmos

Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. Emeritus Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford comments in The Conversation.

Dr Nick Bultinck, left, and Dr James Matthews, right

Royal Society University Research Fellows join Physics

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.

12 December 2022

Two males standing in front of a blackboard with equations written on it

Oxford to benefit from STFC theoretical physics funding

The Department of Physics and Mathematical Institute will benefit from STFC's £20 million investment in theoretical physics.

25 October 2022

Aerial photograph of the current Simons Observatory site

Oxford role in search for origins of Universe

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund.

17 October 2022

Dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background, interpreted as due to our motion towards the hotspot. The horizontal dark stripe is emission from our Galaxy (Planck collaboration 2020).

'Lopsided' Universe could mean revision of standard cosmological model

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model

7 September 2022

The LZ central detector in the clean room at Sanford Lab after assembly, before beginning its journey underground

All systems go for dark matter detector LUX-ZEPLIN

The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.

Graphic to represent tracing movement of galaxies back in time.

Cutting-edge maths turns back time in our universe

An international team of researchers including Dr Sebastian von Hausegger, used insights from physics, mathematics, and computer science to create a novel method that traces the movement of galaxies back in time.

Professor Pedro Ferreira

Professor Ferreira recognised by RAS

Professor Pedro Gil Ferreira has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Gerald Whitrow Lecture in Astronomy.

14 January 2022

LUX-ZEPLIN surface lab

Leading xenon researchers unite to build next-generation dark matter detector

The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter.