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Life and Physics

Jon Butterworth is a physics professor at University College London. He is a member of the UCL High Energy Physics group and works on the Atlas experiment at Cern's Large Hadron Collider. His book Smashing Physics: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs was published in May 2014

18 August 2018

  • The City of Space, model of the Ariane 5 rocket.

    Life and Physics
    EuroScience Open Forum: sharing science, and a bit of career advice

    A physics PhD’s experience of a week at the largest science meeting in Europe.

13 August 2018

  • Higgs to 2e2μ candidate event recorded by ATLAS at the CERN LHC in 2017 (run=328263, event=953423990).

    Life and Physics
    Life, Physics and Everything

    When the Guardian’s science blog network closes, Life & Physics will have been here for eight years. Physics has come a long way in that time, but there is (as always) more to be done...

23 July 2018

  • The visitor centre at the ALICE experiment, CERN

    Life and Physics
    Two quarks for Muster Higgs

    Since the big discovery of 2012, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been accumulating data and making steady progress. Two recent results establish the origins of the mass of the two heaviest quarks

9 July 2018

  • Lily and Emma taking a vertigo selfie at The Digital Catapult offices on Euston Road.

    Life and Physics
    A particle physicist in Whitehall

    Adventures on the Royal Society Policy Secondment Scheme

8 May 2018

  • A snooker break

    Life and Physics
    What time is it, and why?

    Jon Butterworth
    The particles of which the universe is made don’t much care which way time goes. But we do, and so do the stars and the planets.

17 March 2018

  • Four colours (or colors?)

    Life and Physics
    Modelling the fourth colour: dispatch from de Moriond

    At the particle physics conference, it’s clear inconclusive LHCb data are stimulating strange new ideas

7 March 2018

  • Detail of the Crab Nebula

    Life and Physics
    The weirdest stars in the universe

    How big can a star get? Why would a star only pretend to explode? Can you hide one star inside another?

20 February 2018

  • The Sun

    Life and Physics
    How much mass does the W boson have?

    And why it matters

28 December 2017

  • The HERA accelerator at DESY in Hamburg

    Life and Physics
    After 40 years of studying the strong nuclear force, a revelation

    This was the year that analysis of data finally backed up a prediction, made in the mid 1970s, of a surprising emergent behaviour in the strong nuclear force

3 November 2017

  • IRIS students doing genome annotation

    Life and Physics
    Why don’t we let young people contribute to cutting edge science at school?

    Becky Parker
    Becky Parker, director of the Institute for Research in Schools, makes the case that we should – and that some schools are already getting students involved

1 November 2017

  • Detail of one a detector at CERN

    Life and Physics
    Anomalous bottoms at Cern and the case for a new collider

    Particles known as “bottom mesons” are not decaying in the way the Standard Model of particle physics says they should, and it’s causing some excitement

15 October 2017

  • Xenon-Xenon collision in the CMS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    Life and Physics
    A day of xenon collisions at CERN

    On Friday, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN had a day of smashing xenon nuclei together, a departure from its usual diet of protons or lead

3 October 2017

  • Dark Matter.

    Life and Physics
    Could the theory which predicted gravitational waves be wrong?

    The detection of gravitational waves scooped the 2017 Nobel physics prize. But in a Perimeter Institute lecture Erik Verlinde proposes a rather different theory of gravity

24 September 2017

  • Jo Johnson (UK Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation) and Judith G. Garber (U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs) signed the U.S.-UK Science and Technology Agreement on Sept. 20 in Washington, D.C.

    Life and Physics
    UK invests £65m in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in US

    There were a lot of happy neutrino physicists around the UK and the US on Wednesday, as the long-standing partnership between the two countries in particle physics was bolstered by a new agreement

3 September 2017

  • A light-by-light scattering event in the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC

    Life and Physics
    Experiment reveals evidence for a previously unseen behaviour of light

    Beams of light do not, generally speaking, bounce off each other like snooker balls. But at the high energies in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN they have just been observed doing exactly that

20 August 2017

  • Representation of a doubly heavy-quark baryon, such as that discovered at LHCb

    Life and Physics
    Newly discovered particles, and what's in them

    Quarks, basically. But more charming than usual

20 July 2017

  • The Dark Energy Survey uses a 570-megapixel camera mounted on the Blanco Telescope, at the CTI Observatory in Chile, to image 5,000 square degrees of southern sky. The survey has already discovered more than 1,000 supernovae and mapped millions of galaxies to help us understand the accelerating expansion of our universe.

    Life and Physics
    Cosmology and particle physics face surprisingly similar challenges

    Michela Massimi
    Philosophy of science has built an industry around confirmation theory. But unprecedented methodological challenges are forcing philosophers to go back to the drawing-board

17 July 2017

  • ATLAS data on the decay of the HIggs boson to bottom quarks

    Life and Physics
    Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

    As the Large Hadron Collider at CERN continues probing the high-energy frontier of physics, a new feature of its greatest discovery so far has come into view

22 June 2017

  • Commuters walk past the Bank of England in London

    Life and Physics
    Why I left physics for economics

    Arthur Turrell
    I recently decided to abandon the rules that govern nature for the rules that govern people and markets: economics. Why would I do such a thing?

4 June 2017

  • The magnet arriving at Fermilab, 2013

    Life and Physics
    First beam for an important new physics experiment

    An anomaly in the tiny magnetic field of a fundamental particle could be the loose thread that lets us unravel a new layer of physics. A new experiment has started to take a closer look
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