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.

A growing anomaly

Posted on 23/03/2021 by Jon Butterworth

The LHCb experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today released an update of a measurement that many of us physicists have been keeping a close eye on for quite some time. At the Cosmic Shambles Network

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War Poetry

Posted on 20/03/2021 by Jon Butterworth

The marching band came down along Main StreetThe soldier blues fell in behind O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough,Light in their loving as soldiers can be.First to risk choosing them, leave alone losing themNow, in far battle, … Continue reading →

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Leptons Four the Win

Posted on 03/03/2021 by Jon Butterworth

This was a labour of love… (arXiv)

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Quite a turn

Posted on 23/02/2021 by Jon Butterworth

Early this evening, when I had finished an afternoon of interviewing PhD candidates over zoom, I set off to meet my wife, who had, for her approved exercise, gone walking over Hampstead Heath. I phoned her to check the route … Continue reading →

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