Tag Archives: LHC

Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 26/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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What does a pentaquark mean to you?

Posted on 18/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Almost – but not quite – buried on the icy plains of Pluto this week, the Large Hadron Collider revealed a completely new type of particle. What does that tell us? 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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Something to watch for in the new data from the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 27/06/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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