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Tag Archives: CERN
LHC Physics at Ten
It is just over ten years since the Large Hadron Collider first bust the energy records and gave us a higher resolution glimpse into the structure of matter than had ever been possible before.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, Boost, CERN, CMS, Corinne Pralavorio, LHC, LHCb
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Dark words
At the Cosmic Shambles Network. * Note added after some discussion with colleagues: The FCC document on which I think the Nature article relies says “The FCC-hh would essentially provide a comprehensive search for WIMP DM”. The word “essentially” seems important here; I … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Politics, Science, Silly
Tagged CERN, dark matter, ESPP, Fabiola Gianotti, FCC, Gian Giudice, Nature
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A boost in trying times
My first ever blog post was about measuring the Higgs boson when it is produced with very high momentum and decays to b-quarks. When that happens, all the decay products of the Higgs appear in a single “jet” of particles. … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, Boost, CERN, colliding particles, Gavin Salam, Gregory Soyez, Hannah Arnold, Higgs, Matteo Cacciari
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Things beginning with P
I occasionally get asked, since the LHC is not currently providing collisions, what we’re actually doing now. Answers include Protons, Papers, Poppadoms, Preparation, Python, Pictures and Philip Pullman.
Posted in Arts, Particle Physics, Physics, Rambling, Science, Silly, Travel, Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, CERN, Chris Wormell, LHC, LINAC4, Manchester, Philip Pullman, UCL
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