#contur

În scrisoarea sa, Prințesa Catherine a abordat valoarea „micilor gesturi de grijă”, într-o perioadă în care „viața poate părea fragmentată sau incertă. Tema din acest an este importanța iubirii. „Într-o perioadă în care viața poate părea uneori fragmentată sau incertă, perioada Crăciunului ne invită să ne amintim puterea de a ne apropia unii de alții cu generozitate, înțelegere și speranță”, se…

A quick post to advertise a new preprint my collaborators and I put on the arXiv today. It is called “Local Baryon Number at the LHC” and is by me, Joe – one of my PhD students, or Doctoral Researchers, as they are now officially called at UCL – and Pavel and Hridoy, two theory collaborators I’ve enjoyed working before1, from Case Western Reserve2 University. I will explain briefly what we have…

An ATLAS paper I’m closely involved in was published last week, and is the subject of an official ATLAS physics briefing. A personal aside, the team working on this (including but not limited to three PhD students I supervise) was great, and I was really happy to see Contur being used by ATLAS in a publication for the first time too.

Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied class of Dark Matter models. But the chat itself turned into a sort of mini-manifesto about how I think we should be doing physics with the data we will…

See-saws, recycling and the W mass

Earlier this year the CDF collaboration published a measurement of the mass of the W boson which caused something of a stir. I even made it the topic of my slot at the rescheduled “Nine lessons for Curious People” in April. The interest arose principally because the measurement did not agree with the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model is very good as far as it goes, but it…