Category Archives: Physics

Notes from Chicago

Posted on 30/08/2010 by lilyasquith

Now at The Guardian. I am Lily, a new postdoc at Argonne National Lab.  I’m the one who thinks she can find the Higgs boson by listening to it. Thanks Jon for letting me play on your blog. I moved … Continue reading →

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Europe by Physics and Train

Posted on 28/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This post is now also on The Guardian. See also Chapter 3.5 of Smashing Physics. Back in Geneva after the SUSY meeting in Bonn and a day in the mountains. The return journey wasn’t as pleasant as the outward one. … Continue reading →

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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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