Category Archives: Particle Physics

Health and Safety in Particle Physics II

Posted on 29/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

After Lily’s post on poor risk assessment in particle physics, I thought I should bring to your attention the risk of putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – as discussed by Ed Copeland and his colleagues at … Continue reading →

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Black holes and falling objects

Posted on 29/09/2010 by lilyasquith

I was driving into Argonne with a colleague yesterday morning and he was telling me about the experiment (E687) that he worked on when he was a graduate student. It caught fire and burnt down. The reason for the fire … Continue reading →

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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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