Tag Archives: CERN

Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

Posted on 10/07/2017 by Jon Butterworth

As the Large Hadron Collider at CERN continues probing the high-energy frontier of physics, a new feature of its greatest discovery so far has come into view In high-energy particle collisions we study the smallest known constituents of matter. According … Continue reading →

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Is the Standard Model isolated?

Posted on 12/03/2017 by Jon Butterworth

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN revealed the Higgs boson in 2012, but has led to no comparable discovery since. It is worth asking what we hope to learn from the new data coming soon – and indeed from any … Continue reading →

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A new CERN experiment targets even higher energies (eventually)

Posted on 08/01/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Accelerating News

Posted on 14/12/2016 by Jon Butterworth

Interview in CERN’s “Accelerating News“

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