Monthly Archives: September 2010

Health and Safety in Particle Physics II

Posted on 29/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

After Lily’s post on poor risk assessment in particle physics, I thought I should bring to your attention the risk of putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – as discussed by Ed Copeland and his colleagues at … Continue reading →

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Black holes and falling objects

Posted on 29/09/2010 by lilyasquith

I was driving into Argonne with a colleague yesterday morning and he was telling me about the experiment (E687) that he worked on when he was a graduate student. It caught fire and burnt down. The reason for the fire … Continue reading →

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Globe Theatrics

Posted on 24/09/2010 by Herbi Dreiner

Herbi Dreiner and his students have taken their award-winning particle physics show to Cern, where it went down a storm. Continued at The Guardian.

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A surprise from the LHC already!

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced a surprise yesterday which may dramatically change our ideas about quarks, gluons and protons. Continued at The Guardian.

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