Jon Butterworth's Blog: Life and Physics

I shared the open letter Peter refers to on other channels, but this issue is important enough to keep on about it, and his post definitely worth a read. (I have published a lot in SciPost, and UCL is a … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

Ok, two of these posts in a row but it’s the holidays… Sbagliato is a Negroni when you put sparking wine (in this case Blanquette de Limoux, see below) instead of gin. Sbagliato is Italian for “wrong”, but feels right … Continue reading →

There is actual physics going on my life but right now there is also this. Gin, crème de violette, red vermouth, orange & angostura bitters. Yum. I’d would say it counts as a variation on the negroni, and you might … Continue reading →

As I am sure everyone is well aware by now, UCL won a share of an enormous prize yesterday. After half a century of valiant defeat and occasional failure to turn up, football really is coming home. We won the … Continue reading →

A discussion on the future of particle physics is underway. When is it not, you might ask? And it is a good question, there is always something like this going on (hence the “part 94” in the title, which is … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

A splendid whisky-based couple. Ok, the sidecar (right) is supposed to be with brandy but I ran out and anyway I’ve done it with whisky before so I knew it would be good. As you can see from the picture, … Continue reading →

It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker on … Continue reading →

According to the book I got for Christmas, this is the “missing link between the Manhattan and the Martini”, and dates back to 1884. Tastewise, ithat description works for me, as does the cocktail itself.