News
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Top and bottom quarks - spotlight on the higgs boson
The CMS collaboration has recently released new results on how the top quark and Higgs boson interact, and this required a much deeper understanding of the production of top quarks together with bottom quarks.
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Particle Physics with top quark pairs
Theoretical particle physicists at the University of Zurich have completed a new precision calculation for the production of top-quark pairs at hadron colliders.
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Annual Report 2018
The Annual report 2018 is online: Annual Report 2018.
(https://www.physik.uzh.ch/en/reports/AnnualReport2018.html)
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CMS Thesis Award 2018
Congratulations to Daniel Salerno, the winner of the CMS PhD Thesis Award 2018.
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XENON - measurement of slowest radioactive decay
The XENON experiment measured the extremely rare decay of Xenon-124 with a half-life of 1.8 ·1022 years.
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Thermodynamic Magic - Cooling without Energy Consumption
The group of Andreas Schilling has developed a device that allows heat to flow from a cold to a warm object without an external power supply. Intriguingly - in appearing contradiction to fundamental laws of physics.
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Mercator Award: Jury Prize for Frank Schindler
Frank Schindler, PhD student in Titus Neupert's group receives the special prize of the Mercator Award jury
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Flavor Anomalies and the origin of the Yukawa couplings
Gino Isidori, UZH professor in physics, received an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant for theoretical investigations about the origin of elementary particle masses, which aim at extending the current paradigm of fundamental interactions.
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LHCb: Update of lepton universality test measurement RK
The LHCb Collaboration presented an updated measurement of the ratio RK, an important test of a principle of the Standard Model of particle physics known as "lepton universality", which states that electrons, muons and taus couple to other particles with the same strength.
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LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry
The LHCb collaboration has just presented at the Rencontres de Moriond EW and in a special CERN Seminar the first observation of CP violation in charm particle decays.
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APS physics awards Titus Neupert as 'Outstanding Referee'
Congratulations to Titus Neupert who has been honored with the American Physical Society Outstanding Referee award
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Astronomy and Astrophysics journal highlights HESS results
The pulsar wind nebula HESS J1825-137 was one of the first sources detected by HESS in the Galactic Plane and the first to show strong energy-dependent morphology.
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Photoelectrons from under water
In a collaboration with PSI, the group of Jürg Osterwalder built up a surface analytical instrument that can detect photoelectrons from solid liquid interfaces at vapor pressures up to 20 mbar. This method will be useful for energy research, for example for water splitting, fuel cells or batteries.
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Appointments: Prof. Dr. Johan Chang und Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert
Johan Chang was appointed Associate Professor of Experimental Physics and Titus Neupert Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter
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DECTRIS Prize
Congratulations to Chris Marentini, the winner of the first annual DECTRIS Experimental Physics Prize! The Prize is given to an excellent Master's thesis in experimental physics at our institute.
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Cuprate Trilogy
In a trio of recent papers, the group of Prof. J. Chang has made a number of new discoveries about the nature of the cuprates' electronic structure and orbital composition.
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Proseminar in experimental physics 2018
Class of Herbstsemester 18 with coaches. On chairs: Best talk Lorena Niggli, Hakan trophy for the best question: Simon Buse. Monday December 17, Photo Kay Waltar.
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How particle-physics works: hope and worries on the B-physics anomalies
Short movie illustrating the work of experimental and theoretical physicists of our institute that work together to understand recent puzzling results in B-physics reported by the LHCb experiment.
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Bismuth on higher ground
Together with international collaborators the group of Titus Neupert reached a new understanding of the electronic properties of elementary bismuth
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Novel Insulators with Conducting Edges
The group of Titus Neupert is researching a new class of materials: Higher-order topological insulators. The edges of these crystalline solids conduct electric current without dissipation,
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Higgs boson reaches the top
The CMS experiment at CERN unambiguously demonstrates the interaction of the Higgs boson and top quarks. This major milestone is an important step forward in our understanding of the origins of mass.
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Open Day 2018, November 2, 15:00-19:00
Members of the Physics Department presented 40 posters with current research directions and ideas for future experiments and lead through the mechanical workshop and the research laboratories.
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5th Higgs anniversary
The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations was announced five years ago, on 4 July 2012. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of this discovery, CMS released six videos with young researchers among them Daniel Salerno from UZH.
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XENON1T probes deeper into Dark Matter
New results from XENON1T, the world’s largest and most sensitive detector dedicated to a direct search for Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), were reported May 28.
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PPC 2018 workshop, August 2018
Experts from different fields in Physics discussed the connections between particle physics and cosmology at the international conference 'Interconnection between Particle Physics and Cosmology', which took place in August 2018 in Zurich.
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Scalable growth of two dimensional (2D) materials
Centimeter sized boron nitride can be grown on and exfoliated from a single-crystalline rhodium thin film substrate. The findings have been highlighted in Science, 359, 649 (2018).
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Dr. William D. Phillips: Time, Einstein and the coolest Stuff in the Universe
Thursday, March 22, 19:00, Y04-G-30
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Particle Physics Masterclass 2018
Discover the world of quarks and leptons - an introduction to the world of particle physics for high school students. The master class will take place March 23 (in german)
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Schrödinger in Arosa
While he was professor for theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, the later Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger revolutionized physics. He achieved his breakthrough during the Christmas holidays in Arosa in 1925
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Gravitational Waves - Nobel Prize 2017 in physics
The prize was awarded to R. Weiss, B. Barish and K. Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector, which directly detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015. The group of Philippe Jetzer of UZH is involved in research with gravitational waves.
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ERC grant to study quantum matter
Titus Neupert, assistant professor of theoretical solid-state physics at the Institute of Physics at the University of Zurich, receives an ERC (European Research Council) grant for the research of new quantum materials.
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Scientifica 2017 - what data reveal
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6th Beam Telescope and Test Beam Workshop, 16th - 19th January 2018
This workshop covers a wide range of topics related to test beams for detector studies in tracking detectors, calorimetry and beyond.
https://indico.desy.de/event/bttb6 -
ZPW2018 - Flavours: light, heavy and dark, 15.-17. Jan. 2018
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Open Day 2017, November 27
Members of the Physics Department presented 40 posters with current research directions and ideas for future experiments and lead through the mechanical workshop and the research laboratories.
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Annihilation of Weyl fermions observed in a crystal
A collaboration of researchers from Beijing, Princeton, and the University of Zurich demonstrated how Weyl fermion excitations can be annihilated in a crystal via the application of a strong magnetic field.
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LHCb - a new charming particle
LHCb reports the observation of a new particle with two charm and one up quark. The mass is about 3621 MeV, which is almost four times heavier than the proton. It is the first time that such a particle has been unambiguously detected.
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Realization of a combined band- and Mott insulator
Recently the UZH research group of Johan Chang uncovered - using angle-resolved photoemission electron spectroscopy - the nature of the Mott phase in Ca2RuO4 that has puzzled for decades.
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Hidden Forces in the Universe
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CMS - barrel pixel detector inserted
The upgraded CMS barrel pixel detector system was built in part at the Physik Institut by the CMS group during the past 5 years. Beginning of March 2017 it was inserted into the CMS detector at CERN.
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LHCb - new results that test lepton universality
New measurements by the LHCb experiment show an unexpected deviation from predictions by the Standard Model of particle physics.