Image: D. Montage (via Wikipedia) Lyon is perhaps best known for as one of France’s great gastronomical hubs, with the Burgundy wine regions to the north and the fruit basket of the Provence to the south, all linked by the mighty Rhône river. But Lyon is also the home of a major computing hub: theContinue reading “Open Data/Software in Particle Physics”
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Creativity in research
If you are reading this post, then hopefully you are already aware that I am a scientific researcher… what you might not know if that my brother is a musician (one could probably describe him as a singer-songwriter). At first glance, you might think that our professions are totally different, but I’m here to tellContinue reading “Creativity in research”
Pushing into the Unknown
Image: me speaking at the opening session of the ATLAS Exotics Workshop in the San Domenico center in Bologna, October 2024. Photo credit: Bruna Pascual. At the end of October, I attended the ATLAS Exotics “workshop” in the beautiful city of Bologna in Italy. The word “workshop” may lead you to imagine me in aContinue reading “Pushing into the Unknown”
Teaching in Corsica
Image: Carlo Venturi. Students and lecturers during a discussion session. Last spring, I was fortunate to be invited to lecture at the “BCD summer school” held in Corsica at the Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse. The BCD summer school is designed as a shared forum for physics masters students from Bologna, Clermont-Ferrand and Dortmund. ItContinue reading “Teaching in Corsica”
Starting as ATLAS Exotics Convener
Image: an overview of some constraints on (some!) of the models featuring new particles which are searched for in ATLAS. Today I started my new role in ATLAS as the convener of the Exotic physics working group. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this is a role which means that, along with my co-convener DrContinue reading “Starting as ATLAS Exotics Convener”
Long lived particles and their friends: a new step in the search programme
An ATLAS paper I’ve been working on for about 2-3 years hit the arXiv today: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09168Just in time for the big ICHEP conference (the biggest conference in particle physics) which takes place in Prague from Wednesday this week! It is a follow-up to my previous search for pairs of exotic long-lived particles (see Searching forContinue reading “Long lived particles and their friends: a new step in the search programme”
Exotics Convener
Some big news in this post! I can now officially say that I’ve been appointed to be the ATLAS experiment’s next Exotics Convener, starting October 1st 2024. To the un-initiated, this may sound like I am going to become some kind of unusual fruit collector. But in reality, this is an important scientific leadership roleContinue reading “Exotics Convener”
A measurement five years in the making
Towards the middle of my first post-doc, back in 2019, my then boss Jon asked me if I would join an exciting and ambitious measurement project which just needed a little extra push to be finished. The UCL PhD student working on it was graduating, and it seemed just a small injection of person powerContinue reading “A measurement five years in the making”
CHACAL: bringing France and South Africa closer together
I’m just about to travel back to Clermont-Ferrand after two weeks in South Africa, where my longtime colleague Deepak Kar and I were running a residential research school at University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. CHACAL was funded by the French CNRS’s France-Africa international cooperation programme, with an open call to organise a “summer school” inContinue reading “CHACAL: bringing France and South Africa closer together”
Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian translations!
New translations of Particle Physics for Babies have landed on the website! I’m vey happy that we now have translations of the book to Italian (🇮🇹), Portuguese (both 🇵🇹 and 🇧🇷 variants) and Hungarian (🇭🇺). This brings the total of 10 languages in which you can obtain the explanations for the book. It’s all possibleContinue reading “Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian translations!”
Louie D. Corpe 