Learning from the Tau

Posted on 31/03/2025 by Jon Butterworth

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

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth
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Experts

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth

It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker on the ATLAS experiment at an impressive “Instant Expert” event organised by New Scientist. Quite a lot of people had decided that learning about particle physics was a good way to spend a Saturday and of course I agree. It was a very engaging audience, lots of fun.

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Cocktail update: Martinez

Posted on 11/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth

According to the book I got for Christmas1, this is the “missing link between the Manhattan and the Martini”, and dates back to 1884. Tastewise, ithat description works for me, as does the cocktail itself.

  • 50ml red vermouth
  • 25ml gin
  • 5ml maraschino
  • generous with the bitters2
  1. The Spirits by Richard Godwin ↩︎
  2. Today was one of those vanishingly rare days where I actually finished a bottle of angostura. ↩︎
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