Tag Archives: LHC

Beyond the LHC

Posted on 12/10/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Back in July, Clara Nellist and I were in a field (in a tent at the Latitude Festival) talking with Helen Czerski about particle physics, how it got here (and how we got there) and where it might be going. … Continue reading →

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Smashing Oxygen

Posted on 10/10/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Particles from space have a long history of teaching us new physics, most recently recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize to Francis Halzen for the observation of high-energy neutrinos from space. Measuring and modelling the collisions of high-energy … Continue reading →

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An “impossible” Higgs measurement becomes reality thanks to AI (and QCD)

Posted on 14/04/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum are a key probe for new physics. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson back in 2012, one of the most important things we have been doing at the CERN Large Hadron Collider … Continue reading →

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Data taking

Posted on 23/03/2026 by Jon Butterworth

A break from funding crises… We are in the last physics run of the Large Hadron Collider before we go into a long shutdown to upgrade the beam intensity. Courtesy of ATLAS, the experiment I work on, you can see … Continue reading →

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