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About lilyasquith

I am a particle physicist working on sonification of the data output from the ATLAS detector at CERN. The project I'm working on is called LHCsound and is funded by the STFC. It is based at University College London where I have just finished my PhD on the search prospects for a low mass standard model Higgs Boson. I have now moved to Chicago to start an ATLAS postdoc with Argonne National Laboratory.

“He completely lost me on gravity”

Posted on 23/03/2011 by lilyasquith

At The Guardian. I got a typically hilarious email from my wonderful mother this morning. Tempted as I am to copy and pasted the email into this blog, it would ruin my retirement plan to publish a compendium of every … Continue reading →

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My favourite particle: the electron.

Posted on 17/03/2011 by lilyasquith

(Also at The Guardian.) This week my favorite particle is the electron (one of the best things about working in particle physics is that it accommodates my fickle heart and mood swings perfectly). Electrons occupy every atom in the universe. … Continue reading →

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My favourite particle: the photon

Posted on 28/02/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at The Guardian. I was talking to my daughter about a star she saw out of her bedroom window the other morning. Actually it was Venus. She had learned at school that some of the stars we see aren’t … Continue reading →

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The sound of science

Posted on 07/02/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at the Guardian. For some reason it has taken me about 3000 years to get around to writing this post. Seeing Jon last week at CERN has finally collapsed me into the right state to do so. Paddington station … Continue reading →

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