Category Archives: Physics

Fun with data

Quick one, rather than my usual finely-honed prose. I am very busy and am having lots of fun. We are writing papers on jet data from ATLAS. I love this, and as I tweeted I am just so impressed by … Continue reading

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Survival of those that Fit

See also Chapter 3.6 of Smashing Physics. I noticed the other day that suddenly more people were looking at my blog. So it goes – Wordpress give you lots of cool graphs to obsess over. However, that particular demon is a mere … Continue reading

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Wellcome to Physics

See also Chapter 2.3 of Smashing Physics. A couple of days ago I took part in a “packed lunch” discussion at the Wellcome Exhibition, about CERN, the LHC, and my work at UCL. A lot of fun. I turned up with … Continue reading

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Minimum Bias 1.5

A quick post to explain something about this, the first ATLAS physics results from LHC collisions at 7000 GeV. The measurement is a repeat of the ATLAS minimum bias measurement at 900 GeV, except these protons hit each other at … Continue reading

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