Tag Archives: Higgs

Higgs hunting – what happens next?

Unlike, for example, most things Ben Goldacre writes about, lives don’t hang in the balance. But many of the same issues apply – statistical confidence, systematic bias, blinding of experiments and so on. Real knowledge about the fundamental nature of the … Continue reading

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Exclusion limits: The Higgs boson fights back

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.7 of Smashing Physics.

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EPS2011: Summer of particle physics

At the Guardian.

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Boosted objects in Princeton

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.2 of Smashing Physics.

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