Tag Archives: CERN

Experts

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth

It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker on … Continue reading →

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HAPPy Days

Posted on 16/11/2024 by Jon Butterworth

If you are interested in the History and Philosophy of Physics, this 10th anniversary commemorative volume from the Oxford Centre for History and Philosophy of Physics might contain treats, possibly including a write up from me of a talk I … Continue reading →

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Photons, hadrons and where they meet

Posted on 08/09/2024 by Jon Butterworth

The next particle collider to be built, not counting the planned upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, seems likely to be the “Electron-Ion Collider” (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in the US. This will not … Continue reading →

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Aspen and the Edge of Atom Land

Posted on 29/08/2024 by Jon Butterworth

I’m half way through the second week of my stay at the Aspen Center for Physics, where we have been discussing “Tightening the Gap Between Scattering Amplitudes and Events at the LHC at Higher Orders“. What that somewhat wordy title … Continue reading →

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