Tag Archives: Monte Carlo

Photons, hadrons and where they meet

Posted on 08/09/2024 by Jon Butterworth

The next particle collider to be built, not counting the planned upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, seems likely to be the “Electron-Ion Collider” (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in the US. This will not … Continue reading →

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Modelling the invisible part of the cross-section

Posted on 20/03/2020 by Jon Butterworth

Originally posted on 2 eV Blog:
I am on day 3 – or is it 4, I lose count – of a quarantine since coming down with mild flu-like symptoms on Tuesday.  For about half of that time I have been…

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MCnet at Cumberland Lodge

Posted on 29/07/2019 by Jon Butterworth

This week I’m in Windsor Great Park for a summer school on Monte Carlo event generators for particle physics (and beyond).

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Perturbation theory: are we covering up new physics?

Posted on 11/10/2011 by Jon Butterworth

A timely award of the J. J. Sakurai Prize acknowledges how hard it can be sometimes to pin down what the Standard Model really thinks Read more at the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.2 of Smashing Physics.

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