News at PPRC
Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment to Begin Construction in April 2020
20 September 2018
On Sept 12th, Prof T. Kajita, 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate and Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, on behalf of the University of Tokyo, host lab of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment together with KEK, announced that the construction of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment will start in 2020 (https://www.interactions.org/press-release/hyper-kamiokande-experiment-begin-construction-april-2020).
Searches For Very Rare Decays Of The Higgs Boson By The Atlas Experiment
11 August 2017
The Particle Physics Research Centre at QMUL have been searching for the very rare decay of the Higgs boson into two muons harvesting the data collected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
The Hyper-Kamiokande Project Is In The Mext Large Projects Roadmap
4 August 2017
Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K), a third-generation Water Cherenkov detector and the latest in an illustrious series of world-leading experiments located in Japan, is being developed by an international collaboration.
T2K Presents Hint of CP Violation By Neutrinos
3 August 2017
The international T2K Collaboration, where Queen Mary group plays significant roles, strengthened its previous hint that the symmetry between matter and antimatter may be violated for neutrino oscillation.
PSISTAR Students in visit at CERN
20 February 2017
On Monday February 20, a delegation of PsiStar students have visited CERN and its facilities. They visited the first synchrocyclotron built at CERN in 1954 and then they went underground to visit the cathedral-size CMS and ATLAS experiments, taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
New Earth-Like Planet found around nearest Star
24 August 2016
Clear evidence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System, has been found by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Celebrate the International Women Day with SPA
3 March 2016
SPA and the Juno Committee is celebrating the International Women's Day with a special lecture on women and physics in the developing world. Join us on Wednesday 9th March at 13:30 in the G.O.Jones Lecture Theater.
Half-Life: A Mysterious Tale of Neutrinos and Spies
12 February 2016
Frank Close, acclaimed author of several books explaining physics to the general audience, will come to the School of Physics and Astronomy at QMUL on Friday March 4th at 4:15pm in the G.O.Jones Lecture Theatre. He will talk about his latest book telling the story of physicist Bruno Pontecorvo.
