On the way home

Posted on 20/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Distance, technology and stuff. Somewhere over Paris.

I’m writing this on an aeroplane between Geneva and London. This is my weekly commute since becoming a convener of the ATLAS Standard Model physics group. We use teleconferencing and our world wide web, but chats over coffees are still essential for proper coordination of what is now a huge production machine for scientific papers.

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 4.2 of Smashing Physics.

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Resonance: Music from the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 18/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This blog is going a bit musical over the next few days. Watch out for Lily on sonification soon. But right now, a taster of the ATLAS CD. It’s not only heavy metal, though we have that too.

At the Guardian.

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Heavy Metal in the Large Hadron Collider: this time for real

Posted on 10/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

On Saturday I wrote about the plans to collide lead ions in the LHC, and showed a simulation of what we might see. On Sunday it happened. Here’s the real thing…

See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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Heavy Ions in the Large Hadron Collider – What’s the difference?

Posted on 07/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Recent headlines about the LHC and the big bang look remarkably similar to the other headlines about the LHC and the big bang. What’s the difference now?

At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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