I recently had the pleasure to give an overview talk at the 15th Long-Lived Particle workshop, held in Spain in Valencia (although unfortunately I was not able to be there physically myself). It was a great pleasure because until recently, I was a member of the organising committee for that workshop, which has grown fromContinue reading “A decade of progress in searches”
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Analysis Preservation: sharing best practice between experiments
Today I had the pleasure of giving a talk in the general meeting of the LHCb collaboration — something which is unusual for a member of the ATLAS collaboration! Large scientific collaborations need to have private spaces where they can discuss away from the scrutiny of other experimentalists and theorists. There are some things whichContinue reading “Analysis Preservation: sharing best practice between experiments”
Winning 0.008% of the Breakthrough prize in fundamental physics
On Sunday, I woke to discover that I had won a major award: the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Well, not me personally, but the four main experimental collaborations of the Large Hadron Collider: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. Together, that’s about 13,500 people, of which I represent about 0.008%. Still, my name is onContinue reading “Winning 0.008% of the Breakthrough prize in fundamental physics”
MASTERing the Art of Research
In my last post, I described some wonderful summary plots which were presented publicly for the first time at CERN a couple of weeks ago, at a workshop on CMS-ATLAS cooperation on their search programmes. But it was not the only result of mine that was premiered that week ! Hot on the heels ofContinue reading “MASTERing the Art of Research”
Bridging the 8.6km gap between ATLAS and CMS with long-lived particles
This week I had a new result out, a bit of an unusual one. This is not strictly speaking a paper, just a set of plots (you can find the complete set here https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PUBNOTES/ATL-PHYS-PUB-2025-002/)summarising the state of “Hidden Sector” neutral long-lived particle searches. What’s really cool about them is that, for the first time forContinue reading “Bridging the 8.6km gap between ATLAS and CMS with long-lived particles”
Open Data/Software in Particle Physics
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”
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”
Louie D. Corpe 