Tag Archives: Neutrinos

Waking up with a sense of euphoria.

Posted on 28/03/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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My favourite particle: the proton

Posted on 26/03/2011 by

At The Guardian.

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Japanese high-energy physics facilities affected by quake

Posted on 12/03/2011 by

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.

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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

The ANITA experiment is designed to look for neutrinos, but saw 16 ultra-high-energy cosmic rays by mistake. At The Guardian.

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ICHEP is over, long live ICHEP

Posted on 26/07/2010 by

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 the beautiful Hotel de Ville de Paris. Debussy’s … Continue reading →

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Heading off to ICHEP

Posted on 22/07/2010 by

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 are many international conferences on high energy … Continue reading →

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Fun with data

Posted on 22/06/2010 by

Quick one, rather than my usual finely-honed prose. I am very busy and am having lots of fun. We are writing papers on jet data from ATLAS. I love this, and as I tweeted I am just so impressed by … Continue reading →

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