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 Meta-Analysis Of LHC Results

Posted on 15/10/2019 by Jon Butterworth

This article on the arXiv today seems interesting. I like this kind of meta-analysis. But two thing leap out at me.

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Consider Feynman in all his manifestations

Posted on 09/10/2019 by Jon Butterworth

If you click on the “Richard Feynman” tag of this blog you will find he features quite often. He was a great physicist who had an enormous impact on the field in general and on particle physics in particular (no … Continue reading →

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île des Quarks

Posted on 08/10/2019 by Jon Butterworth

Ok, this is basically a boast post, but I just got the French edition of “A Map of the Invisible” (actually they went with the US title and layout, so “Atom Land”) and I am very pleased with it. https://twitter.com/jonmbutterworth/status/1181227685407842305

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Neutrino Endpoint

Posted on 07/10/2019 by Jon Butterworth

There is something very elegant about the KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment. At the Cosmic Shambles Network.

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