Tag Archives: CERN

LHC Run 3, the beginning

Posted on 22/04/2022 by Jon Butterworth

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 →

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LHC Physics at Ten

Posted on 22/12/2020 by Jon Butterworth

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.

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Dark words

Posted on 23/10/2020 by Jon Butterworth

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 →

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A boost in trying times

Posted on 25/04/2020 by Jon Butterworth

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 →

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