Higgs boson breakthrough
University of Glasgow physicists are celebrating the latest groundbreaking observation from the ATLAS collaboration at CERN in Geneva: the observation of Higgs bosons produced together with a top quark pair.
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05 Jun
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05 Jun
The life and death of the neutron
A team of scientists including Dr Chris Bouchard in the School of Physics & Astronomy has enlisted powerful supercomputers to calculate a quantity known as the “nucleon axial coupling,” or gA – which is central to our understanding of a neutron’s lifetime – with unprecedented precision. -
09 May
Prof Sheila Rowan elected FRS
Professor Sheila Rowan, director of the University of Glasgow’s Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR), has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society for her pioneering work on gravitational wave detection -
06 Apr
Giant solar tornadoes put researchers in a spin
Despite their appearance solar tornadoes are not rotating after all, according to a European team of scientists
