Category Archives: Physics

An “impossible” Higgs measurement becomes reality thanks to AI (and QCD)

Posted on 14/04/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum are a key probe for new physics. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson back in 2012, one of the most important things we have been doing at the CERN Large Hadron Collider … Continue reading →

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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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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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