Category Archives: Physics

Colliding Particles to Comprehend the Components of Matter

Posted on 09/09/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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Some top measurements from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 06/09/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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A good week for neutrinos: highest-power beam delivers oscillations, space delivers highest energy

Posted on 09/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

The NOνA far detector, at Ash River Minnesota, measures neutrinos fired from Fermilab in Chicago – 800 km away. This week NOνA reported data showing that they change types during that journey; the beginning of what promises to be an … Continue reading →

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Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

Posted on 02/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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