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.

Anti-protons, Dark Matter and Helium

Posted on 04/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

First post of “Postcards from the Energy Frontier” at the Cosmic Shambles Network. A new measurement at CERN tells us something about the way particles travel through interstellar space. Which in turn may help a satellite on the International Space … Continue reading →

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Geneva Monopoly

Posted on 01/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Just returned from a couple of weeks at CERN. Saw this in Geneva and had to buy it – you can probably tell why.

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First ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave

Posted on 29/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Turning out to be a busy August in physics. This breakthrough was just published in Nature: Nature news and the paper itself (open access, hurrah!). Really nice, extensive summary from CERN by Achintya Rao As you can see from the Nature News … Continue reading →

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ATLAS and CMS results on Higgs decay to bottom quarks

Posted on 28/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

This morning two results appeared on the arXiv: Observation of H→b anti-b decays and VH production with the ATLAS detector (from the ATLAS Collaboration) Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks (from the CMS Collaboration)

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