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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

In the particle physics world, there is a lot of excitement today as the MiniBooNE experiment just released a new paper looking for what happens when neutrinos ...

Visiting CERN, an insider's perspective

In this blog I intend to give a give an insider perspective on how CERN tours are arranged and what is happening behind the scenes. As a professional physicist,...

Particle physics data taking and analysing - a 'quick' overview

One of the most common questions I get most as a particle physicist has to do with how we collect data and then analyse the data. So in this post I will discuss...

Particle physics humour

Just seen at CERN: A door with so many signs that you need a PhD to open it One can never have enough signs?!? source: @freyablekman on twitter Today I spent mo...

What does an experimental particle physicist do: Measure particles!

One of the most important parts of my work is to measure particles. Loads of particles. The particles I typically measure come from the collisions of the Large ...

What does an experimental particle physicist do: the simple answer

The shortest answer of what experimental particle physicists do is "we break particles to check what is inside and then build cameras to actually look at the br...

Introduceyourself: Particle Physicist at the Compact Muon Solenoid at CERN

I'm an experimental particle physicist working at the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC. (this is the experiment I work on. No white coats, but safety...