What Particles Remain to be Discovered?

Posted on 04/07/2017 by Jon Butterworth

An episode of the Infinite Monkey Cage.

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First beam for an important new physics experiment

Posted on 04/06/2017 by Jon Butterworth

An anomaly in the tiny magnetic field of a fundamental particle could be the loose thread that lets us unravel a new layer of physics. A new experiment has started to take a closer look

The magnet arriving, somewhat portentiously, at Fermilab in 2013 Photograph: Fermilab

The magnet arriving, somewhat portentiously, at Fermilab in 2013 Photograph: Fermilab

At the Guardian.

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Why I marched for science

Posted on 23/04/2017 by Jon Butterworth

Science will not make moral and political choices for us, or tell us what our goals should be. But it will help delineate the possibilities for achieving them

At the Guardian.

Some speeches and interviews, including one with me, are available at the Cosmic Shambles network.

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Is the Standard Model isolated?

Posted on 12/03/2017 by Jon Butterworth

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN revealed the Higgs boson in 2012, but has led to no comparable discovery since. It is worth asking what we hope to learn from the new data coming soon – and indeed from any particle physics experiment in the near future

At the Guardian.

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