Category Archives: Particle Physics

The importance of measurements

Posted on 01/07/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Having been pretty much bedridden with Covid for most of the week, I am now feeling much better. I still have those two lines on the thingy though, so today have added a cricket match to the list of missed … Continue reading →

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When is a Higgs not a Higgs?

Posted on 11/06/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Last Thursday, along with most of the STFC Technology and Accelerators Advisory Board (TAAB) I had a tour of RAL Space and RAL Technology Division. Lots of very cool stuff (and in some cases we are talking milli-Kelvin-and-below cool). Since … Continue reading →

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Babbage @TheEconomist

Posted on 25/05/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Along with several colleagues, I was interviewed by my old Guardian Science Blog boss Alok Jha for two episodes of the Economist’s Babbage podcast, about the future of the LHC and beyond. If you subscribe to the Economist you can … Continue reading →

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On the new CDF measurement of the W boson mass

Posted on 23/04/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Just before the LHC Run 3 restart, the big news in particle physics was (and probably still is) the new measurement of the mass of the W boson from the CDF experiment. I talked about it a week ago at … Continue reading →

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