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Tag Archives: dark matter
Focus: Why are bubbles round?
I may not have added to this blog for quite some time, but I have been writing… For example, there was this paper on LHC data and composite Dark Matter. Perhaps more accessibly, I have been writing some little physics … Continue reading
Posted in Physics, Science, Writing
Tagged BBC, Bubbles, Clara Nellist, contur, Cosmic Shambles, dark matter, Helen Czerski, Robin Ince, Science Focus
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Dark words
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
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Politics, Science, Silly
Tagged CERN, dark matter, ESPP, Fabiola Gianotti, FCC, Gian Giudice, Nature
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Summer Highlights
One of the highlights of my summer was giving the “Highlights” talk at the end of the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics meeting in Ghent. I wrote something about it here and here already, but today my write up of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged arXiv, CMS, cricket, dark matter, EPSHEP, Europe, Flavour, Ghent, gravitational waves, heavy ions, LHC, LHCb, Neutrinos, open data
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Exploring the “Higgs Portal”
The Higgs boson is unique. Does it open a door to Dark Matter? All known fundamental particles acquire mass by interacting with the Higgs boson. Actually, more correctly, they interact with a quantum field which is present even in “empty” … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, dark matter, Higgs, LHC
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