Tag Archives: Higgs

Minimum Bias

Posted on 22/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

[29/3/2010 An article based on this, benefiting from Ian Sample’s excellent editorial help, went on the Guardian site. See also Chapter 2.2 of Smashing Physics.] As of Friday morning, the LHC is accelerating protons to an energy three-and-a-half times higher … Continue reading →

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Mountain Physics

Posted on 09/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Wahay! I finally posted the proceedings of the Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV colliders and they appeared on the arXiv today. ArXiv (pronounced archive) is the standard repository for particle physics papers and lots of of other science. … Continue reading →

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The Physics behind the paper behind “Colliding Particles”

Posted on 29/12/2009 by Jon Butterworth

This post is also at The Guardian, and is expanded in Chapter 1.7 of Smashing Physics. This is a bit of a niche post but there was recently a review in Physics World of these videos I’m in about research … Continue reading →

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