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.

Belief, bias and Bayes

Posted on 28/09/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Ambulance-chasing Large Hadron Collider collisions

Posted on 17/09/2014 by Jon Butterworth

By Ben Allanach. At the Guardian.

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Five sigma and all that

Posted on 15/09/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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What does it feel like when everyone else finds the Higgs, and you don’t?

Posted on 06/09/2014 by Jon Butterworth

A short film on the ups, but mainly downs, of a difficult search. A couple of weeks ago we hosted a small-ish meeting at UCL, the sixth “Boost” workshop. I’ve written about these before and I enjoy them a lot. It was great … Continue reading →

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