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15 August 2017
Oxford Physicists Line Up Laser Pulses To Drive Plasma Wakefields
Oxford Physicists Line Up Laser Pulses To Drive Plasma Wakefields
A team led by Professor Simon Hooker's group at Oxford have shown that very compact particle accelerators could be driven by trains of laser pulses travelling through a plasma (an ionized gas). This work illustrates the potential for efficient plasma accelerators operating at much higher pulse repetition rates than possible to date.
14 August 2017
Congratulations Tim Palmer
Congratulations to Tim Palmer who has been elected a Foreign Member of the Italian Accademia dei Lincei which was founded in 1603 and is the oldest such academy in the world.
14 August 2017
Oxford Physics Quantum projects secure industry funding
The Department of Physics has been successful in winning funding for three new exciting projects in the latest quantum technologies competition, which was co-funded by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Of the funding, 65% will go towards supporting company activities, and the remaining 35% to academic research.
21 July 2017
Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics
Many Congratulations to Jocelyn Bell Burnell who has been awarded the President’s Medal of the Institute of Physics "for her outstanding contributions to physics through pioneering research in astronomy, most notably the discovery of the first pulsars, and through her unparalleled record of leadership within the community"
15 July 2017
2017 EPS DPP prize awarded to Justin Ball
Justin Ball, student of Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics has been awarded a 2017 EPS DPP PhD Research Award for his study of the effect of plasma boundary shape on driving intrinsic rotation in the tokamak, and more generally on the confinement properties.
More information can be found here.
14 July 2017
Prof Paolo Radaelli awarded the Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia
Congratulations to Prof Paolo Radaelli (Head of Condensed Matter Physics), who has been awarded the Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) by the President of the Italian Republic.
14 July 2017
LHCb double charmed
The LHCb experiment is charmed to announce observation of a new particle with two heavy quarks
14 July 2017
Iceberg A-68 and Oxford Physics
Oxford Physics scientists have used satellites to document the creation of Iceberg A-68
Oxford Physics Taster Day
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The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture
The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture
We are delighted to host our second Particle Physics Christmas Lecture, and have Prof. Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS, as our guest speaker. He is an experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. Read more about the speaker below.