Nuclei are at the core of everything in day to day life. Understanding how they work and interact is a fundamental science vital to applications in the real world as well as pure research.
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Image of the week: Dalitz plots
Image of the Week: Dalitz plots – We really like this image, it looks like Bane from Batman!
Laura Baudis: the detection of dark matter and XENON
All our evidence for dark matter is based on indirect observations. That isn’t enough, we need direct detection.
A focus on shape coexistence in nuclei
A classic way to think of an atomic nucleus is as a sphere; but this isn’t quite right. Many are deformed, and are stranger than you think.
Image of the week: on the hunt for WIMPs
It’s not easy making a discovery. Sometimes you need a worldwide effort to know just where to look.
Most downloaded papers of 2015
Looking at some of the most downloaded content across the JPhys series of journals.
Looking back at 2015
As we move into the new year, I take a look back at some of the biggest science stories that captured our interest in 2015.
What are we looking forward to in 2016?
It’s been a busy, exciting, and fantastically successful year for the JPhys+ blog and Journal of Physics series and we’re all looking forward to what the new year will bring.
Season’s Greetings from JPhys+
Celebrate a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with some beautiful festive physics artwork.
An interview with Stephen King, physicist
“In a nutshell, we live in exciting times where theory and experiment are working hand in hand in particle physics towards revealing the answers to the deep and pressing questions left unanswered by the Standard Model.”
Image of the week: a collision at 2,760,000,000,000 eV
That’s a lot of electron volts.
Did dark matter kill off the dinosaurs?
Not directly perhaps, but did it influence the final hammer blow 65 million years ago?
A chat with a certain Witek Nazarewicz on uncertainty quantification
Errors are everywhere, and everything is uncertain. We must understand and estimate how these affect physics, but how do we do it best?
The Breakthrough Prize: science and celebrities
It’s not every day that scientists get to rub shoulders with the world of film stars and pop icons like Russell Crowe and Christina Aguilera.
Five new nuclei from Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Nuclei that barely hold together and stretch our understanding of nuclear matter? Go on then.
The Nobel prize: signs of physics to come
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B McDonald win for their work in neutrino oscillations. Pure physics, but there could be a bright future ahead.
Introducing Letters from the Journal of Physics
Just one of the things we’re doing to make sure great science can get to the right people.
