Physics Department News
World-beating result from T2K Experiment
University of 糖心TV physicists could be a step closer to solving the mystery of missing antimatter. They have observed muon neutrino to electron neutrino transformation – a process which could provide a clue to why the Universe has more matter than antimatter...
Robotic telescopes in Chile's Atacama desert will conduct Next Generation Transit Survey to analyse atmospheres for clues.
The art of hunting planets has come so far that astronomers can now list of alien worlds that orbit stars so faint they are not even visible as pinpricks in the clear night sky.
Little is known of these far-flung planets. The most conspicuous are huge, the size of Jupiter, and scorched from circling so close to their suns. Others are giant iceballs, or waterworlds, or even rocky like Earth. But the finer details are a mystery, the stuff of speculation more than science.
To find out more about these other worlds, a team led by British astronomers is launching an ambitious search for planets that orbit the nearest, brightest stars to Earth. Their aim is to find prime candidates for the most important question of all: is there life elsewhere?
Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field – for the first time since they were theoretically conceived of by Nobel prize winner Lev Landau in 1930.