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Category Archives: Astrophysics
Summer Highlights
One of the highlights of my summer was giving the “Highlights” talk at the end of the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics meeting in Ghent. I wrote something about it here and here already, but today my write up of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged arXiv, CMS, cricket, dark matter, EPSHEP, Europe, Flavour, Ghent, gravitational waves, heavy ions, LHC, LHCb, Neutrinos, open data
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Another Hot Mess
Exotic matter takes centre stage in this second instalment of highlights from the big summer High Energy Physics conference. At the Cosmic Shambles Network.
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged Cosmic Shambles, EPSHEP, gravitational waves, heavy ions, LHC, QCD
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Exploring the “Higgs Portal”
The Higgs boson is unique. Does it open a door to Dark Matter? All known fundamental particles acquire mass by interacting with the Higgs boson. Actually, more correctly, they interact with a quantum field which is present even in “empty” … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, dark matter, Higgs, LHC
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Particle & astro-particle physics annual UK meeting
The annual UK particle physics and astroparticle physics conference was hosted by Imperial this week, and has just finished. Some slightly random highlights.
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Chris McCabe, dark matter, Imperial, IoP, Jim Virdee, Rebecca Chislett, Theodore Zorbas, Xin-Ran Liu
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