Tag Archives: colliding particles

You say Tomaydo, je dis la Tomate

Posted on 31/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.4 of Smashing Physics. Home again after the excitement of ICHEP, extensively blogged for the Guardian. No physics in this post; even I need a break from it. A week of ICHEP was followed by a small … Continue reading →

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Heading off to ICHEP

Posted on 22/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.4 of Smashing Physics. I’m writing this on the Eurostar at St.Pancras, waiting for it to pull out of the station and take us to Paris, and the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP). Of course there … Continue reading →

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Mountain Physics

Posted on 09/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Wahay! I finally posted the proceedings of the Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV colliders and they appeared on the arXiv today. ArXiv (pronounced archive) is the standard repository for particle physics papers and lots of of other science. … Continue reading →

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The Physics behind the paper behind “Colliding Particles”

Posted on 29/12/2009 by Jon Butterworth

This post is also at The Guardian, and is expanded in Chapter 1.7 of Smashing Physics. This is a bit of a niche post but there was recently a review in Physics World of these videos I’m in about research … Continue reading →

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