Tag Archives: Neutrinos

Japanese high-energy physics facilities affected by quake

Posted on 12/03/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Two major particle physics labs are a couple of hundred kilometres south of Sendai. The earthquake struck just before a seminar to announce the first T2K neutrino results. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 5.5 of Smashing Physics.

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Antarctic balloon sees particles with a million times more energy than the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 30/10/2010 by Jon Butterworth

The ANITA experiment is designed to look for neutrinos, but saw 16 ultra-high-energy cosmic rays by mistake. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.4 of Smashing Physics.

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ICHEP is over, long live ICHEP

Posted on 26/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.4 of Smashing Physics. ICHEP now moves from the parallel to the plenary sessions. Some people leave, some arrive. Some, like me, stay. On Friday evening we had concert by a string quartet dressed as the Reservoir Dogs in … Continue reading →

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Heading off to ICHEP

Posted on 22/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.4 of Smashing Physics. I’m writing this on the Eurostar at St.Pancras, waiting for it to pull out of the station and take us to Paris, and the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP). Of course there … Continue reading →

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