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Tag Archives: CERN
A Decade of the Higgs Boson and Beyond
Some bits and pieces on today’s festivities. An article at the Cosmic Shambles Network: There’s also a live webcast from CERN. And (along with several others) I talked to Harry Cliff for this excellent New Scientist article, and am extensively … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged CERN, Cosmic Shambles, Harry Cliff, Higgs, New Scientist
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Babbage @TheEconomist
Along with several colleagues, I was interviewed by my old Guardian Science Blog boss Alok Jha for two episodes of the Economist’s Babbage podcast, about the future of the LHC and beyond. If you subscribe to the Economist you can … Continue reading
The clues that tell us when the Universe began
All being well, I’ll be in CERN tomorrow for the first time since the end of 2019. Given how routine this used to be, I am surprisingly nervous and excited (and less surprisingly resentful of the extra brexit-induced paperwork involved). … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged BBC, CERN, Science Focus
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LHC Run 3, the beginning
Today will be a busy day at CERN, with beams scheduled to go around the Large Hadron Collider tunnel, a big step towards the start of “Run 3”. This comes after a long, three year shutdown where, while struggling with … Continue reading