Tag Archives: HEP

ALPHA collaboration photographs

The ALPHA col­lab­or­a­tion based at CERN announced today that they had produced, trapped and stored anti-hydrogen for the first time. Below are some pho­to­graphs I took at the ALPHA collaboration’s facility last time I was at CERN.

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First Collisions

w00t!

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U2 and particle tracks

U2’s new tour makes use of a very impressive shape-changing video screen designed by Chuck Hoberman. What piqued my interest was the images in this video of the screen in action: I’m pretty sure that they’re using pho­to­graphs of particle … Continue reading

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Beer mat

When I teach about bubble chamber particle detectors I often use etched drink glasses as an example; so I was pleased to come across this beermat:

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2008 Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Yoichiro Nambu and Makoto Kobay­ashi & Toshi­hide Maskawa for their work on broken sym­met­ries. Symmetry breaking explains some of the odd beha­viour of fun­da­mental particles and explains why there is … Continue reading

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