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 Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in 9 November 2021 Dr Alexandra Ramadan receives Research Visionary Award Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award. 5 November 2021 Meet...Elliot Bentine We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 4 November 2021 Professor Yeomans recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021. 2 November 2021 Obituary: Professor Graham Ross Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021. 2 November 2021 Commentary: Sherrington on Parisi and the Nobel Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 2 November 2021 Measuring the atmosphere 340 light-years away Commentary: Professor Vivien Parmentier explains how the unprecedented measurement of both oxygen and carbon atoms in an exoplanet atmosphere provides clues to understanding how planetary systems form. 27 October 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 Donor-supported outreach work The Department of Physics’ award-winning outreach work is often generously supported by our philanthropic donors. 19 October 2021 Professor Jayne Birkby awarded Philip Leverhulme prize Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at Oxford is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize. 18 October 2021 Dali Ma: from physics to photography Alumni from Oxford's Department of Physics follow a wide variety of career paths; here, we hear from alumnus Dali Ma about where physics took him... 18 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 Load More
Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in 9 November 2021
Dr Alexandra Ramadan receives Research Visionary Award Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award. 5 November 2021
Meet...Elliot Bentine We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 4 November 2021
Professor Yeomans recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021. 2 November 2021
Obituary: Professor Graham Ross Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021. 2 November 2021
Commentary: Sherrington on Parisi and the Nobel Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 2 November 2021
Measuring the atmosphere 340 light-years away Commentary: Professor Vivien Parmentier explains how the unprecedented measurement of both oxygen and carbon atoms in an exoplanet atmosphere provides clues to understanding how planetary systems form. 27 October 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
Donor-supported outreach work The Department of Physics’ award-winning outreach work is often generously supported by our philanthropic donors. 19 October 2021
Professor Jayne Birkby awarded Philip Leverhulme prize Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at Oxford is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize. 18 October 2021
Dali Ma: from physics to photography Alumni from Oxford's Department of Physics follow a wide variety of career paths; here, we hear from alumnus Dali Ma about where physics took him... 18 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