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.

Get someone to check your results. And don’t lobby gravity

Posted on 06/12/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Let’s take this offline

Posted on 02/12/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.2 of Smashing Physics.

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Colliding Particles: Decay

Posted on 30/11/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Adam Davison and Ricardo Goncalo discuss the decays of the Higgs boson, with some nice archive footage from the discovery of the W boson Here, as promised, is episode nine of Mike Paterson’s “Colliding Particles“. Nothing to do with zombies, … Continue reading →

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Colliding Particles: The Dice

Posted on 23/11/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Mike Paterson made seven short films about life at the Large Hadron Collider before the Higgs. Then it all went quiet. Episode eight heralds the start of a rapid catch up. Also at the Guardian. 

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