Bubble Chamber Breakthrough

As I am sure everyone is well aware by now, UCL won a share of an enormous prize yesterday1. After half a century of valiant defeat and occasional failure to turn up, football really is coming home. We won the annual Bubble Chamber Football tournament (with a bit of help from some nuclear physics colleagues from Surrey and Liverpool).

Photo credit Will Quinn, who is in the grreen

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The future of particle physics, part 94

A discussion on the future of particle physics is underway. When is it not, you might ask? And it is a good question, there is always something like this going on (hence the “part 94” in the title, which is a bit of a Private Eye in-joke). But this is a moment when the intensity of the discussion is rising.

Detail from from “A Map of the Invisible
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Learning from the Tau

An ATLAS paper I’m closely involved in was published last week, and is the subject of an official ATLAS physics briefing.

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Cocktail Update: Penicillin and Sidecar

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