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How big is a quark?

Posted on 07/04/2016 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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How the Higgs boson is born and how it dies: the most precise picture so far

Posted on 20/09/2015 by Jon Butterworth

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, have combined their data to produce our most precise view to date of the Higgs boson Read on at the Guardian.

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What goes on inside a proton?

Posted on 21/02/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Quarks and gluons make weird slopes and shapes inside the proton. Understanding them precisely was important for the first results from Cern’s Large Hadron Collider, and continues to be so as we approach the restart over the next few weeks … Continue reading →

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A Selfish turn around CERN

Posted on 17/01/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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