Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 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 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 Professor Shipsey awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, Head of Department, has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his leadership in experimental particle physics. 16 October 2023 Professor Salam recognised by IOP Professor Gavin Salam FRS has been awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize for his profound, wide-ranging and impactful contributions to particle physics. 16 October 2023 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. 3 July 2023 Professor Claire Gwenlan receives teaching award Professor Claire Gwenlan has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards; the scheme celebrates success and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching practice. 29 June 2023 Meet...Holly Pacey We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 June 2023 The language of symmetry Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023. 16 May 2023 A fractal tree of quarks and gluons A startlingly beautiful image that has just been published was inspired by an algorithm proposed by theorists from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2018. 18 April 2023 Major milestone in ATLAS tracker upgrade After more than 10 years of research and development, an upgraded tracker that is fundamental to the ATLAS experiment, is moving to production marking a major milestone for the collaboration. 16 March 2023 Putting the science into science fiction Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN brings together 13 physicists from CERN, including Dr Daniel Cervenkov, with award-winning writers and authors 3 March 2023 ATLAS Thesis Award for Dr Mironova Dr Maria Mironova was one of eight PhD students to be recognised with a 2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award. 1 March 2023 Load More
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
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
Professor Shipsey awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, Head of Department, has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his leadership in experimental particle physics. 16 October 2023
Professor Salam recognised by IOP Professor Gavin Salam FRS has been awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize for his profound, wide-ranging and impactful contributions to particle physics. 16 October 2023
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. 3 July 2023
Professor Claire Gwenlan receives teaching award Professor Claire Gwenlan has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards; the scheme celebrates success and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching practice. 29 June 2023
Meet...Holly Pacey We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 June 2023
The language of symmetry Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023. 16 May 2023
A fractal tree of quarks and gluons A startlingly beautiful image that has just been published was inspired by an algorithm proposed by theorists from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2018. 18 April 2023
Major milestone in ATLAS tracker upgrade After more than 10 years of research and development, an upgraded tracker that is fundamental to the ATLAS experiment, is moving to production marking a major milestone for the collaboration. 16 March 2023
Putting the science into science fiction Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN brings together 13 physicists from CERN, including Dr Daniel Cervenkov, with award-winning writers and authors 3 March 2023
ATLAS Thesis Award for Dr Mironova Dr Maria Mironova was one of eight PhD students to be recognised with a 2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award. 1 March 2023