Tag Archives: LHC

Firing a quark through the early universe

Posted on 27/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Latest results from the Large Hadron Collider use quarks and gluons to “X-ray” the nuclear soup we came from. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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Don’t wear your colours here..

Posted on 20/11/2010 by lilyasquith

I’ve spent the last 48 hours enthralled by the goings on at the Argonne “Analysis Jamboree”. I’m not really much of a one for these things… my more senior colleagues doze and my more junior colleagues tap loudly on their … Continue reading →

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Resonance: Music from the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 18/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This blog is going a bit musical over the next few days. Watch out for Lily on sonification soon. But right now, a taster of the ATLAS CD. It’s not only heavy metal, though we have that too. At the … Continue reading →

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Heavy Metal in the Large Hadron Collider: this time for real

Posted on 10/11/2010 by Jon Butterworth

On Saturday I wrote about the plans to collide lead ions in the LHC, and showed a simulation of what we might see. On Sunday it happened. Here’s the real thing… See also Chapter 4.6 of Smashing Physics.

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