Category Archives: Physics

How much mass does the W boson have?

Posted on 20/02/2018 by

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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Posted on 06/01/2018 by

Book review in Publishers’ Weekly. Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” … Continue reading →

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Book review

Posted on 06/01/2018 by

via A Map of the Invisible – Journeys into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth

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After 40 years of studying the strong nuclear force, a revelation

Posted on 28/12/2017 by

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A day of xenon collisions at CERN

Posted on 15/10/2017 by

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Could the theory which predicted gravitational waves be wrong?

Posted on 03/10/2017 by

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UK invests £65M in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in US

Posted on 24/09/2017 by

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Experiment reveals evidence for a previously unseen behaviour of light

Posted on 03/09/2017 by

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Newly discovered particles, and what’s in them

Posted on 20/08/2017 by

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Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

Posted on 10/07/2017 by

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