Category Archives: Physics

Robots with lasers are protecting my collider

Also at the Guardian. I have just finished my first ever set of shifts in the ATLAS control room, and now I feel like a proper physicist. I did three eight-hour shifts. The first two were boring as hell as … Continue reading

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From Barcelona

At the Guardian.

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Perturbation theory: are we covering up new physics?

A timely award of the J. J. Sakurai Prize acknowledges how hard it can be sometimes to pin down what the Standard Model really thinks Read more at the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.2 of Smashing Physics.

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LHSee: Higgs is on the phone

At the Guardian.

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