Tag Archives: CERN

Déjà vu all over again

Posted on 16/10/2026 by Jon Butterworth

That’s apparently a quote from Yogi Berra. It seems appropriate for a number of reasons. Here I am in Geneva Airport writing a blog post again after a week of ATLAS meetings. For a couple of years when I was … Continue reading →

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Smashing Oxygen

Posted on 10/10/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Particles from space have a long history of teaching us new physics, most recently recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize to Francis Halzen for the observation of high-energy neutrinos from space. Measuring and modelling the collisions of high-energy … Continue reading →

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An “impossible” Higgs measurement becomes reality thanks to AI (and QCD)

Posted on 14/04/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum are a key probe for new physics. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson back in 2012, one of the most important things we have been doing at the CERN Large Hadron Collider … Continue reading →

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Some history of UCL and particle physics

Posted on 05/04/2026 by Jon Butterworth

UCL is 200 years old this year, and there is a lot to celebrate. Physics and astronomy have been here since the start.

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