Tag Archives: LHC

Aspen and the Edge of Atom Land

Posted on 29/08/2024 by Jon Butterworth

I’m half way through the second week of my stay at the Aspen Center for Physics, where we have been discussing “Tightening the Gap Between Scattering Amplitudes and Events at the LHC at Higher Orders“. What that somewhat wordy title … Continue reading →

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Missing Energy

Posted on 05/08/2024 by Jon Butterworth

Here’s a question you might not have asked yourself before. When protons collide in the Large Hadron Collider, how often are undetectable particles produced? Maybe a quick follow up question would be, why does it matter? A paper I have … Continue reading →

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The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model of Particle Physics

Posted on 29/12/2023 by Jon Butterworth

A couple of weeks ago I had fun doing a podcast with Robinson Erhardt where we discussed the above and a few other things. Hopefully it will give you some insights into particle physics and how we do it, as … Continue reading →

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Composite Dark Matter, for example

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Jon Butterworth

Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied … Continue reading →

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