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Experts
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Rambling, Travel
Tagged ATLAS, brexit, CERN, DESY, Isidore Rabi, Mark Thomson, New Scientist, Oppenheimer, Particle Physics, physics, Robin Ince, Science
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Missing Energy
Here’s a question you might not have asked yourself before. When protons collide in the Large Hadron Collider, how often are undetectable particles produced? Maybe a quick follow up question would be, why does it matter? A paper I have … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, CERN, dark matter, LHC, louie corpe, rivet
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The Stonehenge of Particle Physics
.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. … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Particle Physics
Tagged ATLAS, Clara Nellist, Cosmic Shambles, Robin Ince, video
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See-saws, recycling and the W mass
Earlier this year the CDF collaboration published a measurement of the mass of the W boson which caused something of a stir. I even made it the topic of my slot at the rescheduled “Nine lessons for Curious People” in … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, contur, Cosmic Shambles, LHC, MCnet, Neutrinos, Tevatron
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