particle physics – The Institute of Physics blog

Higgs deserves his nobel prize – but there’s more to physics than the fairytale lone genius

11 October 201324 August 2018 by Tara Shears

Everyone loves a fairytale. You might think that the 2013 physics Nobel prize is a fairytale too – two theoretical physicists predicting something unimaginably small … Read more

The irresistible rise of the standard model

29 July 20137 August 2018 by Tara Shears

Physicists don’t take summer holidays. Instead, they go to summer conferences. This year’s conference, in Stockholm, made a splash with the announcement that two experiments at … Read more

What matters about antimatter

8 May 20137 August 2018 by Tara Shears

Just like the dog that didn’t bark in the night time, the absence of antimatter in the universe worries us. Why there isn’t more of … Read more