Category: Postcards From the Energy Frontier

On Monday we had a meeting of UK particle physicists at the shiny new Institute of Physics building to discuss the ongoing update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

Jon Butterworth has been too distracted to write much lately partly due to the demoralising backdrop of UK politics, and partly because he’s been too busy having fun with physics and related matters. So here’s a catch up from that side of things.

What to focus on. Where to look for the science. Prof Jon Butterworth visits the physics inspired Broken Symmetries exhibition.

A Dark Matter Mystery Explained? Postcards from the Energy Frontier by Prof Jon Butterworth...

Jon Butterworth is finding it very hard to separate the personal, the political and the professional. He attempt to do so looking back at 2018 in the context of the world, and physics.

The chances are you have heard quite a bit about the Higgs boson. The goody-two-shoes of particle physics. It has followed all the rules, so far. Neutrinos, on the other hand, are trouble.

Ten years ago it was Wednesday, and at 10:28 in the morning Geneva time the first protons had just made the 27 km journey through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Prof Jon Butterworth on the tenth anniversary of switching the LHC on.

Professor Jon Butterworth writes of a new measurement at CERN tells us something about the way particles travel through interstellar space. Which in turn may help a satellite on the International Space Station find evidence for Dark Matter.