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Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser beam to be generated, with a unique direction and colour, which conserves momemtum and energy.

Oxford physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects

Physicists have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once thought to belong to science fiction; the findings pave the way for real-world laser facilities to experimentally confirm bizarre quantum phenomena.
5 June 2025
The Very Large Array sees fountains of hot gas erupting from a beastly black hole in the heart of a large galaxy known to radio astronomers as Hercules A. For millions of trillions of miles, these jets shoot through space, finally slowing when they reach ancient gaseous hiccups left behind by this galaxy’s earliest days of star-forming fury.

Black holes: nature’s own supercolliders

Scientists could turn to black holes to complement facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe’s deepest secrets, a new study by Oxford researchers suggests.
3 June 2025
Professor Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Bortoletto recognised by European Physical Society

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 recognising her work in revolutionising silicon detector technology and in supporting women in physics.
23 May 2025
Using plastic bricks to demonstrate up and down quarks

Particle physics for the public

On Saturday 15 March, particle physicists from the Department of Physics were tasked with sharing their love of fundamental physics with the wider public for the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology.
8 April 2025
The largest ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) barrel after all modules loaded and tested at Oxford

Department of Physics celebrates ATLAS Collaboration's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2025

Scientists from Oxford University are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments.
8 April 2025
Axion search experiment installed in the interaction chamber of the HED/HiDEF instrument at the European XFEL.

XFELs join the hunt for axions: a new light in the dark sector

Researchers have unveiled an innovative experimental approach using an X ray free electron laser (XFEL) to probe for axions – elusive particles that may make up dark matter.
17 February 2025
Students being taken on a tour of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source as part of the Big Data: ATLAS project

Secondary school student research published in scientific journal

Secondary school students taking part in the Big Data: ATLAS project have had their results published in the European Physical Journal Plus.
26 September 2024
Professor Gavin Salam

Professor Salam receives Frontiers of Science Award

Together with professors Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason and Giulia Zanderighi, Professor Gavin Salam has been awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science.
1 August 2024
A high vacuum system used to create ultracold strontium atoms for use in the AION experiment, Beecroft Building, Department of Physics

The art of science

The Department of Physics is partnering with the University of Nottingham's ARTlab to host artist-in-resident Matthew Woodham as he works on an original art piece inspired by the Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network (AION) project.
1 August 2024
Abbey Barnard

Meet...Abbey Barnard

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
13 June 2024
Professor Daniela Bortoletto

Professor Bortoletto appointed OBE

Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics, has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to particle physics and to gender equality.
2 January 2024
Professor Fabrizio Caola

Commentary: Professor Caola on LHC's exquisite precision

Professor Fabrizio Caola has been awarded a sought-after ERC Consolidator Grant; he talks about his quest to develop extremely sophisticated theoretical predictions to match the exquisite precision of the LHC data…
23 November 2023
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