Particle Physics

Oxford Particle Physics is proud to celebrate the promise and the achievement of our graduate students

National and International Prizes

2026 Springer Thesis Prize: Gregor Erbewin - "Wafer-Scale Stitched CMOS Pixel Sensors: Characterisation and Detector Performance Studies for ALICE ITS3"

2026 Alice Collaboration Prize: Gregor Erbewin - "Wafer-Scale Stitched CMOS Pixel Sensors: Characterisation and Detector Performance Studies for ALICE ITS3"

2024 Springer Thesis Prize: Martin Tat - "Model-independent measurement of the CKM angle γ in B^±→ [h⁺h⁻π⁺π⁻]Dh′^± (h = K, π) decays at LHCb and BESIII"
 

Departmental prizes

2026 Denys Wilkinson Prize: George Lin Shaoze - “Model-independent measurement of the strong-phase parameters using a novel approach in D0 and D0 decays to K⁻π⁺, π⁻π⁺π⁰, K⁻π⁺π⁰, K⁻π⁺π⁺π⁻, K⁰_S,Lπ⁺π⁻"

2026 Don Perkins Prize: Luisa Velazques Fernandez - “Measurements of 𝜈𝜇-Ar Differential Cross-Section of Charged-Current Single Pion Production with Associated Protons in MicroBooNE"

2026 John Adams Prize: (joint winners) Meg Savage - “Temperature Studies in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators”; Francesco Straniero - “Simulations of collective instabilities and space charge in coasting beams in the ISIS synchrotron "