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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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ATLAS and CMS results on Higgs decay to bottom quarks

Posted on 28/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

This morning two results appeared on the arXiv: Observation of H→b anti-b decays and VH production with the ATLAS detector (from the ATLAS Collaboration) Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks (from the CMS Collaboration)

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