Recent Outreach Activities
Asteroid ripped apart to form star’s glowing ring system
The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time.
Led by Christopher Manser of the University of Warwick’s Astrophysics Group, the researchers investigated the remnants of planetary systems around white dwarf stars...
Neutrino experiments win big again
Coming hot on the heels of the Nobel Prize award for the discovery of neutrino oscialltions, the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics 2016 has recognized five collaborations studying neutrino oscillations. One of them, the T2K neutrino oscillation project, has had major contributions from the Warwick T2K group headed by Dr Gary Barker and Dr Steve Boyd.
On November 8, representatives from the five experiments accepted the award in a televised event in the USA...
Understanding the magnetism in lanthanide-transition metal magnets
Prof Julie Staunton's electronic structure calculations that reveal the profound complexity of magnetic interactions in technologically relevant intermetallic materials have been highlighted on the front cover of the latest issue of Physical Review Letters, the world’s premier physics letter journal.
The calculations give a quantitatively accurate description of the diverse magnetism of Cs-Cl (B2) ordered phases of Gd with Zn, Cd, and Mg, which are tested against experimental data and show the complex role played by the spin-polarized valence electrons.