Category Archives: Physics

Supersymmetry: The Higgs boson’s flexible friend

Posted on 21/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This post is also on The Guardian. See also Chapter 3.5 of Smashing Physics. Next week I am giving a talk a the SUSY 2010 conference in Bonn. It is a bit weird that there have been seventeen of these annual SUSY … Continue reading →

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Into the unknown

Posted on 17/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.8 of Smashing Physics. This morning the first LHC paper to really probe for new physics was submitted by ATLAS to the preprint server and to Physical Review Letters. There has already been one paper (by CMS) … Continue reading →

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Brain Drained

Posted on 16/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This post also at the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.5 of Smashing Physics. On Saturday I went to a leaving party for Lily Asquith of LHCSound fame. Lily was one of our PhD students on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Having graduated, … Continue reading →

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Scuffling over Prizes

Posted on 05/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This post is also available at The Guardian. I have to say I think this is all a bit pathetic. I had thought there were three contenders for a Nobel Prize when* the Higgs Boson is finally discovered. Peter Higgs, … Continue reading →

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