Category Archives: Science

Some history of UCL and particle physics

Posted on 05/04/2026 by Jon Butterworth

UCL is 200 years old this year, and there is a lot to celebrate. Physics and astronomy have been here since the start.

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Data taking

Posted on 23/03/2026 by Jon Butterworth

A break from funding crises… We are in the last physics run of the Large Hadron Collider before we go into a long shutdown to upgrade the beam intensity. Courtesy of ATLAS, the experiment I work on, you can see … Continue reading →

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Science publishing cost and benefit

Posted on 05/06/2025 by Jon Butterworth

I shared the open letter Peter refers to on other channels, but this issue is important enough to keep on about it, and his post definitely worth a read. (I have published a lot in SciPost, and UCL is a … Continue reading →

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Local Baryon Number at the LHC

Posted on 13/05/2025 by Jon Butterworth

A quick post to advertise a new preprint my collaborators and I put on the arXiv today. It is called “Local Baryon Number at the LHC” and is by me, Joe – one of my PhD students, or Doctoral Researchers, … Continue reading →

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