Author Archives: Jon Butterworth

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About Jon Butterworth

UCL Physics prof, works on LHC, writes (books, Cosmic Shambles and elsewhere). Citizen of England, UK, Europe & Nowhere, apparently.

Science Weekly podcast: An accelerated guide to the Higgs boson

Posted on 12/12/2011 by Jon Butterworth

A podcast I did for the Guardian with Ian Sample and Alok Jha.

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Higgs Boson hunt ‘80% complete’

Posted on 25/11/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

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Lego model of the Atlas detector at the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 21/11/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Faster than light neutrinos get a bit more convincing

Posted on 18/11/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.1 of Smashing Physics, and a Channel 4 write up here.

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