How did I get here?

Posted on 08/02/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Vector boson fusion?

Posted on 01/02/2014 by Jon Butterworth

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Even the most boring collisions at the Large Hadron Collider tell us something – this time about cosmic rays

Posted on 26/01/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the CERN Large Hadron Collider we spend a lot of time and effort trying to filter out the common collisions, so we can focus on the rare events. But even the supposedly dull stuff is helping to resolve some key questions about our universe

Artists impression of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Asimmetrie/Infn

Artists impression of cosmic rays entering Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Asimmetrie/Infn

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The Higgs boson does a new trick (probably)

Posted on 26/11/2013 by Jon Butterworth

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