About me: I’m Louie, an experimental particle physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Geneva. On this page, you can find more information about my work, research interests and content such as the Particle Physics for Babies book. I’m passionate about communicating the exciting science of particle physics to the public. I am available to give talks and seminars for any level… just ask! You can find out more about me here.
My activities
Particle Physics for Babies
Grow your own genius with this book for budding scientists
Searches for new particles
Sifting through the LHC data in the hope of discovering something new!
Precision measurements
Confronting the predictions of the Standard Model to experimental data
Detector R&D
Designing the next generation of particle detectors
Re-interpretation
Exploiting a decode of particle physics results to set constraints on new models!
Talks and Seminars
A summary of my recent presentations at conferences and departments around the world
Papers and publications
A summary of my recent papers, notes and preprints
Latest posts
The LHC is dead. Long live the HL-LHC!
Image: A screen shot of the “LHC Page 1” (accessible here), which is our real-time window on LHC operation (or lack thereof). This page is shown on screen all around CERN, including, most importantly, the coffee area. It’s now been three weeks since the LHC collided its last hadrons. After a bumpy start in 2008,…
The machines are coming to steal our jobs (kidding, but let’s use them properly)
Image: You may be surprised that this illustration I have used was not AI generated! It has been used in literally dozens of web articles dealing with AI and jobs, but none give any citation for the original artist. Doing a reverse image search, the earliest use of it I find is 2013 (long before…
The Look Elsewhere Effect in the age of AI
Image: A fascinating plot from the days where the first hints of the Higgs boson started to appear in early LHC data by CMS [Publication]. In addition to the actual Higgs boson peak, the plot shows “evidence” (at the 3σ level) for two other particles, with masses around 140 and 170 GeV). These turned out…