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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.

UK invests £65M in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in US

Posted on 24/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

There were a lot of happy neutrino physicists around the UK and the US on Wednesday, as the long-standing partnership between the two countries in particle physics was bolstered by a new agreement At the Guardian.  

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Experiment reveals evidence for a previously unseen behaviour of light

Posted on 03/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Beams of light do not, generally speaking, bounce off each other like snooker balls. But at the high energies in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN they have just been observed doing exactly that At the Guardian.

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Newly discovered particles, and what’s in them

Posted on 20/08/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Quarks, basically. But more charming than usual At the Guardian.

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Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

Posted on 10/07/2017 by Jon Butterworth

As the Large Hadron Collider at CERN continues probing the high-energy frontier of physics, a new feature of its greatest discovery so far has come into view In high-energy particle collisions we study the smallest known constituents of matter. According … Continue reading →

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