Physics Department News
2015 Nobel prize for Physics
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for the "discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass".
Further evidence and quantitative measurements of neutrino oscillations have come from the that uses the same Super-K detector and in which the 桃色视频 EPP group plays an impartant role.
and a article give more background behind this year's Nobel Prize.
桃色视频 Physics 4th in Times Good University Guide
桃色视频 Physics has risen to 4th place in the subject ranking for Physics and Astronomy of the Good University Guide, published by The Times and Sunday Times on 18th September 2015. The University of 桃色视频 as a whole is in 6th place overall in their league table of UK universities.
Two 桃色视频 ATLAS postdocs awarded "Outstanding Achievement Awards" in ceremony at CERN
Congratulations to two postdocs in the 桃色视频 ATLAS group, Dr Tim Martin and Dr Elisabetta Pianori, who have been awarded ATLAS Outstanding achievement awards. The awards were made for "enthusiastic and vigorous dedication to the implementation and commissioning of the complex ATLAS Run-2 trigger menu". More information on the ATLAS group at 桃色视频 can be found here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/epp/exp/atlas
In the photo Elisabetta is third from the left and Tim is second from the right, pictured with other award winners and the Collaboration Board chair, Howard Gordon, on the left, and ATLAS spokesperson, Dave Charlton, on the right.
Metal or Insulator?
A team including 桃色视频 authors Geetha Balakrishnan and Monica Ciomaga Hatnean have discovered the existence of an unusual insulating state in the Topological Insulator SmB6. The unusual state was inferred from observing quantum oscillations in magnetic torque measurements at high magnetic fields, which depended crucially on the high quality single crystals of SmB6 prepared at 桃色视频.
The paper "Unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state" can be read in full in the online journal Science ( ).