Category Archives: Particle Physics

Ask a grown-up: is there anything smaller than an atom?

Posted on 25/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

And another non-“Life & Physics” article posted here so I can find it. One of the Guardian Weekend “Ask a grown-up” series. Most common response: “You did better than Sir Ranulph Fiennes”…

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What’s in a name? An H, an i, two g’s and an s

Posted on 22/04/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 8.5 of Smashing Physics.

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Searching for supersymmetry: some frustration but no despair

Posted on 14/03/2013 by Jon Butterworth

By Michael Krämer, at the Guardian.

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Birth of a new particle

Posted on 07/03/2013 by Jon Butterworth

From the switch-on of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider through rumours, hints, discovery and now increasingly precise measurements. The Higgs boson – so far – in a real data animation from ATLAS Read on at the Guardian.

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