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.

The philosophy of the Higgs

By Michael Krämer, at the Guardian.

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Searching for supersymmetry: some frustration but no despair

By Michael Krämer, at the Guardian.

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Birth of a new particle

From the switch-on of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider through rumours, hints, discovery and now increasingly precise measurements. The Higgs boson – so far – in a real data animation from ATLAS Read on at the Guardian.

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Has this blog changed your life?

At the Guardian.

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