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.

Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

At the Guardian.

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Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider

At the Guardian.

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What does a pentaquark mean to you?

Almost – but not quite – buried on the icy plains of Pluto this week, the Large Hadron Collider revealed a completely new type of particle. What does that tell us? At the Guardian.

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Nature’s hadron collider produces Higgs bosons all the time, high in the sky

At the Guardian.

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