Tag Archives: cosmic rays

Smashing Oxygen

Posted on 10/10/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Particles from space have a long history of teaching us new physics, most recently recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize to Francis Halzen for the observation of high-energy neutrinos from space. Measuring and modelling the collisions of high-energy … Continue reading →

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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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