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Another Hot Mess – Jon Butterworth

Aug 4, 2019 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

In his latest blog, Prof Jon Butterworth has more news from the EPS with tales of exotic matter.

A Flavour of Particle Physics – Jon Butterworth

Jul 24, 2019 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 2 |

Prof Jon Butterworth has just returned from a high energy physics conference in Belgium where he’s been sampling both beer and neutrinos…

Neutrino Platform – Jon Butterworth

Jul 7, 2019 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

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.

Off the Map – A new talk from Prof Jon Butterworth

Jul 3, 2019 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Video, Words | 0 |

Here’s a talk I gave recently. It’s aimed at fellow particle physicists rather than the general public, but I know some of you fit that description.

Catching Up – Jon Butterworth

Mar 15, 2019 | Blogs, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 1 |

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.

Broken Symmetries – Jon Butterworth

Feb 11, 2019 | Blogs, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 1 |

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?

Jan 10, 2019 | Blogs, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

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

2018 Highlights? Seriously? – Jon Butterworth

Dec 26, 2018 | Blogs, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

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.

Dark Matters – Jon Butterworth

Oct 31, 2018 | Blogs, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

October 31st seems to have become #DarkMatterDay. Dark matters. But the stars are still important, and beautiful. Jon Butterworth with some music and physics.

The Trouble-Makers of Particle Physics – Jon Butterworth

Oct 24, 2018 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 1 |

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.

The Tenth Anniversary of ‘Big Bang Day’ – Jon Butterworth

Sep 10, 2018 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

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.

Antimatter, Dark Matter and Helium – Jon Butterworth

Sep 4, 2018 | Blogs, Featured, Postcards From the Energy Frontier, Words | 0 |

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.