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 awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics 29 November 2021 First results show no hint of a sterile neutrino 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. 27 October 2021 Why two Higgs are better than one Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment. 18 October 2021 Dr Kirsty Duffy wins top UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Dr Kirsty Duffy is one of eight Oxford University academics to have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme 8 September 2021 Former Oxford physicist awarded 2021 Young Experimental Physicist Prize Former Oxford physicist, Nathan Jurik, has been awarded this year’s European Physical Society’s Young Experimental Physicist Prize. 9 June 2021 Subatomic particle first Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery. 8 June 2021 Meet...Seophine Stanislaus Five minutes with Seophine Stanislaus, graduate student in Particle Physics 25 May 2021 Hints of new scientific phenomena The Fermilab Muon g−2 experiment has released its first results showing the muon magnetic dipole moment differs from the theoretical prediction by a significant margin, confirming the results of an earlier experiment. 9 April 2021 Growing hints of lepton-universality violation The LHCb collaboration reveals strengthening evidence of a particle decay that deviates from the Standard Model. 23 March 2021 A tale of two detectors As the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) reveals more details about its so-called ‘near detector’ at Fermilab, we take a look at what it is and what it might mean for physics. 15 March 2021
Professor Bortoletto awarded IOP honorary fellowship Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics 29 November 2021
First results show no hint of a sterile neutrino 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. 27 October 2021
Why two Higgs are better than one Oxford graduate students and physicists are at the heart of a recent announcement from the ATLAS experiment. 18 October 2021
Dr Kirsty Duffy wins top UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Dr Kirsty Duffy is one of eight Oxford University academics to have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme 8 September 2021
Former Oxford physicist awarded 2021 Young Experimental Physicist Prize Former Oxford physicist, Nathan Jurik, has been awarded this year’s European Physical Society’s Young Experimental Physicist Prize. 9 June 2021
Subatomic particle first Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery. 8 June 2021
Meet...Seophine Stanislaus Five minutes with Seophine Stanislaus, graduate student in Particle Physics 25 May 2021
Hints of new scientific phenomena The Fermilab Muon g−2 experiment has released its first results showing the muon magnetic dipole moment differs from the theoretical prediction by a significant margin, confirming the results of an earlier experiment. 9 April 2021
Growing hints of lepton-universality violation The LHCb collaboration reveals strengthening evidence of a particle decay that deviates from the Standard Model. 23 March 2021
A tale of two detectors As the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) reveals more details about its so-called ‘near detector’ at Fermilab, we take a look at what it is and what it might mean for physics. 15 March 2021