.The Cosmic Shambles team visited CERN, Clara and I showed them round ATLAS and talked with Robin.
It clearly works for Robin, but I’m not sure about the title – makes me think of Spinal Tap and the dancing dwarves. But fine, it was a fun trip and Robin gave a good show in the CERN main auditorium, which is a tough venue unless you have a new boson to announce…
I am just going to leave this here because it’s better than anything I could write right now.
Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year.
In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied class of Dark Matter models. But the chat itself turned into a sort of mini-manifesto about how I think we should be doing physics with the data we will take at CERN over the next few years.
Here’s a link to the video.
I hope its understandable and convincing, even if (and that’s the point really) you aren’t particularly interested in these particular models. (Although I don’t see why you wouldn’t be.)
Continue readingLast night, while I was out talking about particle physics in Croydon, my useless family lost the TV remote. Having excluded all the other possibilities, this morning I came to the conclusion there was no option but to subject the sofa to radical surgery.
A few careful slashes with a stanley knife later, here’s the result.
For posterity, here (excluding a very strict definition of actual rubbish) is the inventory…
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