Wobbling muons again

Posted on 11/08/2023 by Jon Butterworth

Yesterday the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab put out an updated measurement of the magnetic moment of the muon. This is in agreement with their previous measurements but substantially more precise. I’ve written about the measurement a few times before – see these posts – and there is an article by Nicola Davies in the Guardian about the update, with some choice quotes from me.

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Oppenheimer and the Bomb

Posted on 02/08/2023 by Jon Butterworth

I did a BBC radio thing about this which for a limited period is available on BBC Sounds. More religion involved than I expected (and no Barbie) but I think my only regret is I didn’t mention Isidor Rabi’s role in the founding of CERN.

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Future Circular Collider week in London

Posted on 17/06/2023 by Jon Butterworth

Earlier this month the international collaboration which is working towards a possible collider at CERN to follow on from the LHC met in London. I had some role from the UCL side in organising it, and was also part of a panel for a public event at the Royal Society on the Thursday evening. There is a good write up of this, and other aspects of the meeting, byJohn Hammersley at Digital Science.

CERN 2070 – The Next Generation

The recording of the public event is here:

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The Stonehenge of Particle Physics

Posted on 10/06/2023 by Jon Butterworth

.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…

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