Physics Department News
New Students 2020
For all those students joining us this autumn, we are pleased to welcome you to the Department of Physics. Please visit our welcome page for further information.
PhD Thesis Prize winners
Three PhD students from the class of 2019 have been awarded prestigious prizes for their outstanding doctoral theses. George King was awarded the Winton Prize for Astrophysics, while Ben Chapman and Connor Mosley won the Faculty of Science Thesis Prize. Connor also obtained the Springer Thesis Prize, and his thesis will be published by Springer. Congratulations to all! Full story
Charming and strange exotic hadrons
The LHCb collaboration has announced the discovery of a new particle, which appears to be the first observation of a tetraquark composed of four different types of quark.
Battery life for wearable electronic devices could be improved with design considerations to stress asymmetry clues in cylindrical battery cell formats
Researchers in WMG and the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick have found that asymmetric stresses within electrodes used in certain wearable electronic devices provides an important clue as to how to improve the durability and lifespan of these batteries.