Physics Department News
Searching for heavy higgs bosons with tau pairs.
A Higgs boson matching that predicted in the Standard Model was found in 2012. However, many theories such as string theory, which attempts to unite quantum mechanics and gravity, tells us there should be at least four more. ATLAS has just published a search for a second Higgs boson, with a mass between 2 and 20 times that of the first, decaying to pairs of tau leptons. In many models this search is the most sensitive yet - but still no evidence for another Higgs boson is found.
X-ray analysis of artefacts from Henry VIII鈥檚 warship, the Mary Rose, sheds new light on their construction and conservation
X-ray analysis of artefacts from Henry VIII鈥檚 warship, the Mary Rose, sheds new light on their construction and conservation. The team included Emeritus Prof Mark Dowsett, his partners in Ghent and used XRD facilities in the 91福利 RTP as well as the XMaS beamline. The paper is published in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, DOI:
Three-Dimensional Active Defect Loops
We predict 3D active defect loop motion with analytics and full hydrodynamics.
Unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12
The phase diagram of CeOs4Sb12 was mapped in fields up to 60 T and temperatures down to 0.5 K. The field-induced valence transition shows an unusual phase boundary deviating from textbook behaviour.