Category Archives: Particle Physics

The Higgs Boson: A Discovery

Posted on 04/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

An article on the Higgs discovery in the New Scientist. I also wrote their 35th “Instant Expert” on the Higgs, around the same time. This was later adapted by them to be part of their book “Why the Universe Exists“.

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Dark Energy, and Matter, Surveys

Posted on 03/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

A quickie, too long for a tweet… If you want to know more about the Guardian’s No.1 big science question , you could do a lot worse than listen to the podcast of my UCL colleagues Ofer Lahav and Chamkaur … Continue reading →

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Is naturalness already hidden within the Standard Model?

Posted on 02/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Praising Arizona

Posted on 31/08/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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