Category Archives: Physics

A day of xenon collisions at CERN

Posted on 15/10/2017 by Jon Butterworth

On Friday, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN had a day of smashing xenon nuclei together, a departure from its usual diet of protons or lead At the Guardian.

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Could the theory which predicted gravitational waves be wrong?

Posted on 03/10/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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

Posted on 24/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

There were a lot of happy neutrino physicists around the UK and the US on Wednesday, as the long-standing partnership between the two countries in particle physics was bolstered by a new agreement At the Guardian.  

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Experiment reveals evidence for a previously unseen behaviour of light

Posted on 03/09/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Beams of light do not, generally speaking, bounce off each other like snooker balls. But at the high energies in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN they have just been observed doing exactly that At the Guardian.

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