More than 80 physicists, mathematicians and engineers met for breakfast in the Ogden Centre to watch the world’s most powerful particle accelerator the Large Hadron Colider at CERN “switch on”. The LHC hopes to find answers to some of the most fundamental mysteries of our Universe, from anti-matter to dark matter, the famous Higgs particle […]
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After four months at the IPPP, funded by the Brazilian CNPq agency, Emerson Luna has left to take up a position as Professor adjunto (the equivalent of a UK lectureship) at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Federal University of Pelotas) As the accompanying map shows, Pelotas is in the “Rio Grande do Sul” state/province at
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Theorists from the IPPP led by Professor Valery Khoze have been working closely with experimentalists from ATLAS and CMS to develop a proposal to install very forward proton detectors at the LHC. These detectors would measure precisely forward protons in conjunction with the corresponding central detectors as a means to study Standard Model physics, and
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For the second year, the IPPP is sponsoring a summer student from Harvard through The Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies. Andrea Peterson will be spending two months at the IPPP learning about research in one of the University’s flagship research institutes. She will be working closely with the SHERPA team led by Dr
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Professor John Ellis (CERN) gave this years Rochester lecture to a packed audience of undergraduates and academic staff. The lecture was entitled `Gauguin’s questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going?” Within particle physics and cosmology Gauguin’s questions may be interpreted as: What is the status
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A little over five years ago, the Prime Minister inaugurated the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University. The Ogden Centre hosts two world leading research groups, the Institute for Computational Cosmology and the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology. The work of these groups lies right at the cutting edge of basic physics research,
Phenogrid is a virtual organization on the LHC Computing Grid (LCG), providing support for UK particle theorists and phenomenologists who would like to use LCG’s computing resources in the UK. One year ago, Phenogrid became fully operational for production use. Since then its 30 users have submitted nearly four hundred thousand jobs and used 1.4
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We are very pleased to welcome Professor Stan Brodsky to the IPPP for a six month sojourn from the Theoretical Physics group at SLAC. Brodsky’s research areas span many areas of high-energy and nuclear theoretical physics, especially the quark-gluon structure of hadrons and novel effects in quantum chromodynamics; fundamental problems in atomic, nuclear, and high
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In spring 2008 the start button for the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind will be pressed. The World’s most powerful particle smasher, aka The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will recreate the conditions in our Universe less than one billionth of a second after it began. ‘ Big Bang’, a touring exhibition describing
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On Monday February 11th, Durham City MP Roberta Blackman-Woods visited the IPPP. She is a member of Parliamentry Universities Innovation and Skills select committee looking into Science Budget Allocations. During her visit she met with Professor Glover and other members of the Department whose research is funded by the STFC. In addition she led a
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