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Composite Dark Matter, for example
Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged contur, dark matter, faculti, LHC, video
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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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