Category Archives: Physics

Future Circular Collider week in London

Posted on 17/06/2023 by Jon Butterworth

Earlier this month the international collaboration which is working towards a possible collider at CERN to follow on from the LHC met in London. I had some role from the UCL side in organising it, and was also part of … Continue reading →

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The Stonehenge of Particle Physics

Posted on 10/06/2023 by Jon Butterworth

.The Cosmic Shambles team visited CERN, Clara and I showed them round ATLAS and talked with Robin. It clearly works for Robin, but I’m not sure about the title – makes me think of Spinal Tap and the dancing dwarves. … Continue reading →

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Composite Dark Matter, for example

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Jon Butterworth

Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied … Continue reading →

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See-saws, recycling and the W mass

Posted on 26/10/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Earlier this year the CDF collaboration published a measurement of the mass of the W boson which caused something of a stir. I even made it the topic of my slot at the rescheduled “Nine lessons for Curious People” in … Continue reading →

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