Tag Archives: ATLAS

Exploring the “Higgs Portal”

Posted on 11/04/2019 by Jon Butterworth

The Higgs boson is unique. Does it open a door to Dark Matter? All known fundamental particles acquire mass by interacting with the Higgs boson. Actually, more correctly, they interact with a quantum field which is present even in “empty” … Continue reading →

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Observation of a previously unseen behaviour of light

Posted on 09/04/2019 by Jon Butterworth

Originally posted on Life and Physics:
Beams of light do not, generally speaking, bounce off each other like snooker balls. But at the high energies in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN they have just been observed doing exactly that…

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Mile End Road

Posted on 04/01/2019 by Jon Butterworth

I spent most of the past two days in the “Arts 2” building of Queen Mary University of London, on Mile End Road. According to Wikipedia, Mile End was one of the earliest suburbs of London, recorded in 1288 as … Continue reading →

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The Standard Model – TEDEd Lesson

Posted on 15/11/2018 by Jon Butterworth

I may have mentioned before, the Standard Model is about 50 years old now. It embodies a huge amount of human endeavour and understanding, and I try to explain it in my book, A Map of the Invisible (or Atom … Continue reading →

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