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”
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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”
Louie D. Corpe 