Quest for the Curious Magnetic Monopole Continues at ATLAS

The York ATLAS team published the latest search for magnetic monopoles in Run 2 LHC proton-proton collisions! For more information, see [ATLAS Collaboration] G. Aad et al., Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector, JHEP11(2023)112,  arXiv.2308.04835 [open access], The ATLAS physics briefing: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Physics-Briefing/Run2-Monopoles, The […]

Postdoc Tejin Cai and MINERvA experiment use antineutrino scattering on H to study proton structure

PhD student Wen-Yi Song submits paper on magnetic monopole pair production

PhD student Wen-Yi Song (centre) celebrates the submission of her first-author paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10789) with PhD student Ana Maria Rodriguez (left) and Prof Claire David (right).

ALPHA Experiment Cools Antimatter with Lasers

The ALPHA experiment, including Professor Scott Menary and grad student Darij Starko, is the first to use lasers to cool a sample of antimatter to near absolute zero. Check out some of the media coverage below or read the Nature paper. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antimatter-laser-1.5970894 https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2021/03/31/york-researchers-part-of-international-effort-to-cool-a-sample-of-antimatter-to-near-absolute-zero/?utm_source=YFile_Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Top-Stories&utm_campaign=yfile https://www.wired.com/story/physicists-learn-to-superfreeze-antimatter-hint-pew-pew/

ATLAS Releases Top-quark Production Rate in 5 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions

Postdoc Mohammad Kareem's work on the new ATLAS measurement of the top-quark pair-production rate in 5 TeV proton-proton collisions collected during a single week of LHC operation is released. https://atlas.cern/updates/briefing/top-pair-5-TeV

New T2K results establish significant boundaries on neutrino oscillation

https://www.triumf.ca/research-highlights/new-t2k-results-establish-significant-boundaries-neutrino-oscillation

ATLAS homes in on magnetic monopoles

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/atlas-homes-magnetic-monopoles

Recent York physics grad wins prestigious PPD Thesis Prize

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/06/02/recent-york-physics-grad-wins-prestigious-ppd-thesis-prize/

Wendy Taylor explains where the Higgs boson was hiding, on Quirks and Quarks

https://t.co/ImfNq5s2TB

York graduate student receives Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship

The graduate student Elder Pinzon Guerra (Physics and Astronomy, supervised by Sampa Bhadra) has been awarded a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short-Term). The fellowship will support Elder for three months to work on his PhD thesis project with Prof. Masashi Yokoyama and Prof. Mark Hartz at The University of […]