Category Archives: Physics

Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Book review in Publishers’ Weekly. Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” … Continue reading →

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Book review

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

via A Map of the Invisible – Journeys into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth

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After 40 years of studying the strong nuclear force, a revelation

Posted on 28/12/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.  

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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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