Tag Archives: Higgs

First particle-beams of 2016 in Cern’s Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 25/03/2016 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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Nature’s hadron collider produces Higgs bosons all the time, high in the sky

Posted on 12/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Has physics cried wolf too often, or do false alarms help build understanding?

Posted on 05/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Mistakes are embarrassing, and getting over-excited about a statistical anomaly is silly. But these things happen, and the answer to building public confidence in science is not to pretend that they don’t Last week I wrote about a possible signal … Continue reading →

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