IoP Astroparticle Physics group

IoP APP is multidisciplinary and topics include but are not limited to: - dark matter - gravitational wave - neutrinoless double beta decay - cosmic ray physics - nuclear astrophysics - neutrino and gamma-ray astronomy - multi-messenger astronomy iop.org/physics-commun…

⏰ ONLY 48 HOURS LEFT TO REGISTER! ⏰ Don't miss out on our live webinar at 6 p.m. GMT / 3 p.m. ET on 22 January 2025, with speaker Eniko Zsoldos. 🔗 Register today: ow.ly/2fRz50UHBuj

The Moon as you’ve never seen it before: A stunning new book of lunar maps shows the long history of humankind’s fascination with the Moon. ow.ly/KkB050UBI4Q

DMUK meeting at King’s College London brought together researchers working on dark matter science in the UK. The event featured discussions on a wide range of topics, spanning both theoretical and experimental aspects! indico.cern.ch/event/1481064/…

New year, new... newsletter? How about signing up for our particle & nuclear digest? Our highlights of research updates, must-read features and opinion pieces, sent straight to your inbox once a quarter. Log into your account to sign up today! ow.ly/meSy50UbK4y

Say hello to our brave shift crew, got stuck at the Roque during a massive snow storm! Can you see them reflected in the mirrors in the second picture? They were forced to stay at the Roque because of the storm, we hope they got some rest and fun together! #theMAGICtelescopes

Happy new year @KM3NeT!

What do you think our lab’s director, Sean, is explaining here? 🤔💭 Suggestions welcomed in the comments... 👀 This week’s #PhotoOfTheWeek 📸 comes from a recent visit to our lab, following the #EarthSciences workshop that we hosted in York 🌍 #POTW

Our latest article focuses on bubble chambers and highlights the remarkable women employed to analyse their results. Learn all about the 'scanners', the unsung heroes of bubble chamber analysis ➡ bit.ly/02ygb

A new study suggests that poor female representation in physics persists due to established male physicists prefering to work with early-career male researchers: ow.ly/XgI950TCXmi

The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2024 is awarded to Dr Kate Shaw for making a substantial impact on improving equality, diversity and inclusion through education, outreach, communication and open data. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-pri…

Breaking news: The best time of the year to view Saturn is rapidly approaching! Tonight, Saturn will be at its biggest and brightest opposite the Sun. It's best viewed with a backyard telescope, which you can learn how to make in this article: ow.ly/F2ib50TeM4C

Astronaut Helen Sharman shares why food and drinks in space are her favourite part of astronaut life! 🚀🍽️ Explore space’s biggest questions with insights from top experts. Learn more at iop.org/SpaceAdventure #MimiSpaceAdventure

Today, at both TeVPA in Chicago and LIDINE in São Paulo, we announced our latest results: new world-leading constraints on WIMP #darkmatter! This limit is the combined analysis of our first 60 day run + 220 additional livedays. No signal yet, but we continue to close the net!

#IoPAPPHEPP2025 conference @Cambridge_Uni is coming! Today committee members from @IOP_APP @IOPHEP and local organisers met to plan of the next conference. Stay tuned!

Stitching science! 🪡 Angelique, our communications placement student at @RutherfordApLab, used her amazing crochet skills to make mascots representing RAL’s six scientific departments. Meet them in the thread 🔽

Not sure what to do this #MayBankHoliday? Enter our Eurekas science competition to be in with a chance of winning £1,000 plus £250 for your school. It can be: 📝 a poem 🎨 a sculpture ⚗️ an experiment or something else entirely! Find out more: theeurekas.co.uk

This #PhotoOfTheWeek is of Super-Kamiokande, a neutrino observatory located under Mount Ikeno in the Western Japanese mountains🏔. Super-K is a Cherenkov detector, observing rings of light emitted by charged particles moving in ultrapure water.

"Neutrinos from Home" online conference will start tomorrow! (April 23, please register here) neutrinos.cosmodiscussion.com During the next 2 weeks, this will bring together the neutrino and cosmology communities for talks (available on YouTube) and live discussions. See you soon!

Today is #NationalHaikuDay2024! 📜🖋 We asked our team to have a stab at writing some haikus – here's what they came up with! 👀 #Poetry #STFC #Haiku pic.twitter.com/lQJHA4fu8n

Congratulations to Dr Patrick Knights of @PP_UniBham for winning @IOP_APP's 2023 Early Career Prize!