The ATLAS(*) and the CMS experiments today presented updates on their searches for Standard Model Higgs bosons. The results, though impressive, do not yet contain enough data to make any definitive statement about the existence or otherwise of the elusive Higgs.
Both experiments have managed to constrain the possible masses of the Higgs down to a narrow range. For ATLAS that range is 116-130 GeV and for CMS it is 115-127 GeV (where a GeV is approximately the mass energy of a proton).
A new approach to measure the mechanical properties of living cells has been developed by researchers at Oxford Physics and Purdue University’s Birck Nanotechnology Center.This new technology could be used to diagnose human disease and better understand biological processes.
The LHCb experiment this week announced at the HCP Symposium in Paris a result which, if confirmed, would most likely be the first measurement performed at the LHC at CERN that cannot be understood within the long-established Standard Model of particle physics. This will require a deeper theory of 'new physics' to explain. Oxford is a founding member of the LHCb collaboration and Oxford physicists Mat Charles and Guy Wilkinson were lead analysts in the study presented in Paris.
Condensed Matter Physics is pleased to announce that Johannes Moeller, first year research student, has been awarded the Arthur H Cooke Memorial Prize 2011 for distinguished work by a first year research student.
Well done, Johannes!
Research by Oxford atmospheric physicist Karen Aplin with Paul Williams from Reading University's meteorology department was featured on Radio 4's PM programme on 19th October. Karen and Paul are publishing a paper in the Royal Meteorological Society's journal Weather about the representation of weather in classical orchestral music.
Amalia Coldea from the Quantum Materials group has been awarded the EuroMagnet prize 2011 for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of the electronic structure of iron-based superconductors by using high magnetic fields.
Ever wondered what collisions at the Large Hadron Collider look like?
Scientists at the world's biggest scientific experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva - are trying to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the Universe, the origin of mass, the structure of space and time, and the conditions of the early universe. For those of us not lucky enough to have the world's highest energy particle smasher in our own back gardens, we can still get close to the action using an exciting new smartphone App.
New STFC funding will pave the way for the UK to maintain and strengthen its leadership role in the design and development of ELT instrumentation. The majority of the £2.1M grant to Oxford will fund work on HARMONI, with the remainder supporting continued development of the science drivers that underpin the E-ELT project.
Researchers at Oxford University and the University of Warwick have developed a form of crystal that can deliver highly accurate temperature readings, down to individual milli-kelvins, over a very broad range of temperatures: -120 to +680 degrees centigrade.
See
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_gives_cry...
An Oxford researcher has been highly commended in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011. Andrew Steele’s image of moonrise over the Oxford skyline was a finalist in the Earth and Space category of the annual competition, run by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
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