Category Archives: Particle Physics

A surprise from the LHC already!

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced a surprise yesterday which may dramatically change our ideas about quarks, gluons and protons. Continued at The Guardian.

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Can you tell what it is yet?

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.7 of Smashing Physics. Detailed software models of particle physics detectors are an essential part of designing and using them. GEANT, the huge open-source software project developed for them, is also used for space and medical applications … Continue reading →

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The Grid

Posted on 17/09/2010 by lilyasquith

I have recently been ‘submitting to The Grid’. This is not some kind of freaky S&M thing, disappointingly perhaps to some. It is a process we have to go through in order to analyze the data being collected by the ATLAS detector at CERN. Continue reading →

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From liquid argon to M theory?

Posted on 16/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 2.6 of Smashing Physics. Claiming to understand the universe from first principles is all very well, but the foundations have to be built on experiment and observation. And it is slow, hard work. Even in Pisa. Continued … Continue reading →

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