Particle physics
29 August 2013
Physics newsletter 2013
Summer 2013
Our latest Department newsletter is now available to download in PDF format here. Have a look at the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education. We would welcome contributions to future newsletters from undergraduate or postgraduate alumni and previous members of the physics department.
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30 July 2013
The Higgs Boson in your hand
Our all new and improved ATLAS smart-phone and tablet app has just been released. The new App is called Collider and it allows you to play games, view events, and hunt for the Higgs Boson on your hand-held device. Following on from LHSee, the application now also features improved graphics, and additional games.
19 July 2013
New results from T2K conclusively show muon neutrinos transform to electron neutrinos
Today at the European Physical Society meeting in Stockholm, the international T2K collaboration announced definitive observation of muon neutrino to electron neutrino transformation. In 2011, the collaboration announced the first indication of this process, a new type of neutrino oscillation, then; now with 3.5 times more data this transformation is firmly established. The probability that random statistical fluctuations alone would produce the observed excess of electron neutrinos is less than one in a trillion.
Astronomy in 2033: What we will (and won’t) know about the Universe
Dr. Chris J. Lintott
Researcher and Citizen Science Project Lead, University of Oxford
Astronomy is undergoing a quiet revolution - new telescopes and new techniques being built and developed right now will change our view of the Universe for good. In this lecture, Sky at Night presenter Chris Lintott will peer into the future and predict what we will - and won't - know in twenty years' time.
The after-Higgs discovery: vision on the Particle Physics strategy
Prof. Phillip Burrows (University of Oxford) & Prof. Gigi Rolandi (CERN & Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
Future Trends in Medical Imaging
Professor David W. Townsend, PhD, FRCR (Hon)
Director, A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre, Singapore
8 February 2013
The Steve Rawlings Memorial Fund
Message from Roger Davies, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
Dear all,
The 11th January this year marked the first anniversary of Steve Rawlings’ death. It has been a very difficult twelve months – Steve was a much loved colleague and is greatly missed as both a person and a phenomenal astrophysicist.
4 February 2013
New Blogs section
A new section available
A new section with blogs has been made available, and a few new blogs have been started already: Astro, Funding news, OSMOSIS Research Cruise and Alumni are already up.
To visit, go to the top menu at the home page -> MORE -> BLOGS
Stargazing Oxford 2013
BBC Stargazing Live Event
Stargazing Oxford returns on the 12th January 2013 from 2pm to 10pm (last entry 9.30pm)
Booking not required, but please expect to queue for entry for a short while.
If you have a question please contact: astrofest@physics.ox.ac.uk