Tag Archives: Smashing Physics

Frog Chorus

Posted on 03/04/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.6 of Smashing Physics. Last week, on the day we got our first 7 TeV collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, quite by chance we also had the conference dinner of the annual meeting of the Institute … Continue reading →

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Minimum Bias

Posted on 22/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

[29/3/2010 An article based on this, benefiting from Ian Sample’s excellent editorial help, went on the Guardian site. See also Chapter 2.2 of Smashing Physics.] As of Friday morning, the LHC is accelerating protons to an energy three-and-a-half times higher … Continue reading →

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Safety First?

Posted on 06/01/2010 by Jon Butterworth

The risks of not doing. Continue reading →

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The Physics behind the paper behind “Colliding Particles”

Posted on 29/12/2009 by Jon Butterworth

This post is also at The Guardian, and is expanded in Chapter 1.7 of Smashing Physics. This is a bit of a niche post but there was recently a review in Physics World of these videos I’m in about research … Continue reading →

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