Tag Archives: cosmic rays

Anti-protons, Dark Matter and Helium

Posted on 04/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

First post of “Postcards from the Energy Frontier” at the Cosmic Shambles Network. A new measurement at CERN tells us something about the way particles travel through interstellar space. Which in turn may help a satellite on the International Space … Continue reading →

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Some top measurements from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 06/09/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Nature’s hadron collider produces Higgs bosons all the time, high in the sky

Posted on 12/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Even the most boring collisions at the Large Hadron Collider tell us something – this time about cosmic rays

Posted on 26/01/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the CERN Large Hadron Collider we spend a lot of time and effort trying to filter out the common collisions, so we can focus on the rare events. But even the supposedly dull stuff is helping to resolve some … Continue reading →

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