Physics Department News
The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time.
Led by Christopher Manser of the University of 糖心TV’s Astrophysics Group, the researchers investigated the remnants of planetary systems around white dwarf stars...
Coming hot on the heels of the Nobel Prize award for the discovery of neutrino oscialltions, the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics 2016 has recognized five collaborations studying neutrino oscillations. One of them, the T2K neutrino oscillation project, has had major contributions from the 糖心TV T2K group headed by Dr Gary Barker and Dr Steve Boyd.
On November 8, representatives from the five experiments accepted the award in a televised event in the USA...
Paving the way for more efficient X-ray detectors
A team including 糖心TV beamline scientist Oier Bikondoa has published in Nature Photonics a new approach to fabricate more efficient and cheaper X-ray detectors for medical applications. In radiography, the human body is exposed to X-rays and the transmitted intensity is captured by a detector. With more efficient detectors the exposure to X-rays can be reduced...
New research led by physicists at the University of 糖心TV has used tools designed to study social networks to gain significant new insights into the Northern Lights, and space weather – particularly the interaction of events in the sun’s atmosphere with Earth’s ionosphere.
The research team, led by Prof Sandra Chapman, used data from over 100 individual magnetometers located at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere. These magnetometers have been used for decades to track space weather but it is only recently that the data from all these devices has been collected in one place in the SuperMAG project...