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A good week for neutrinos: highest-power beam delivers oscillations, space delivers highest energy

Posted on 09/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

The NOνA far detector, at Ash River Minnesota, measures neutrinos fired from Fermilab in Chicago – 800 km away. This week NOνA reported data showing that they change types during that journey; the beginning of what promises to be an … Continue reading →

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Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

Posted on 02/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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What goes on inside a proton?

Posted on 21/02/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Quarks and gluons make weird slopes and shapes inside the proton. Understanding them precisely was important for the first results from Cern’s Large Hadron Collider, and continues to be so as we approach the restart over the next few weeks … Continue reading →

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Symmetry, and breaking it

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Jon Butterworth

How symmetries, and broken symmetries, help physics to be objective and help me to keep my equanimity At the Guardian.

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