Category Archives: Particle Physics

The Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson: UCL lunch hour lecture

UCL runs a series of public lectures at lunchtime. On Tuesday I gave one of these, about the news from the energy frontier, including the discovery on the fourth of July this year.  For the past two years, until the … Continue reading

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Nobel prize in physics: it’s not too soon for a Higgs boson to win it

At the Guardian.

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Jiggling atoms

By Jon Butterworth and Ben Still at the Guardian.

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Desperately seeking SUSY

Also at the Guardian. We discovered a new particle this summer, and it looks a lot like the Higgs boson, but theoretical physicists are not happy. There is a fundamental reason for their discomfort, which is known as the “Higgs … Continue reading

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