News
May 01
Professor Kaib to Record Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye
OU astrophysics professor Dr Nathan Kaib will be taking part in a recording of Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye on May 8 3-4:30pm at...
Apr 25
Brad Abbott Named Presidential Professor
OU physics professor Brad Abbott has just been named the recipient of the 2019 Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professorship http://www.ou.edu/facultyawards/award-recipients ...
Mar 01
Theory-Experiment Team Observed Quantum Mechanical Two-Body Collisions One at a Time
To better understand atomic collisions, Qingze Guan of the University of Oklahoma in Norman and colleagues from Heidelberg University developed a way to...
Jan 18
Branch Awarded Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
Physics & Astronomy emeritus professor David Branch has been awarded the AAS' Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, along with J. Craig Wheeler, for their advanced university-level...
Jan 08
Young Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs May Lack Ingredients for Life
A team of astronomers led by OU's John Wisniewski have used the Hubble Space Telescope to trace giant blobs of material being cleared out from...
Featured Research: OU Physicists Predict Higgs Boson Mass From String Theory Landscape
OU Professors Howard Baer and Kuver Sinha, along with Professor Hasan Serce (Uuniversity of Central Oklahoma) and Professor Vernon Barger (University of Wisconsin), published the paper Higgs and superparticle mass predictions from the string theory landscape in the Journal of High Energy Physics. They show, using a statistical analysis of the supersymmetry breaking scale from the string theory landscape, that nature pulls towards large supersymmetry breaking masses along…
