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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports
Modelling b¯bH production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV
Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk, Matthew A. Lim, Stefano Manzoni, Elena Mazzeo, Javier Mazzitelli, Aparna Sankar, Michael Spira, Frank J. Tackmann, Marius Wiesemann, Giulia Zanderighi, Marco Zaro
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 18 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.18#MPP #DESY #SussexUniversity #INFNMilano_Bicocca #UNIMIB #CERN #PSI #TUM #UNIMI #INFNMilano
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports
Modelling b¯bH production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV
Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk, Matthew A. Lim, Stefano Manzoni, Elena Mazzeo, Javier Mazzitelli, Aparna Sankar, Michael Spira, Frank J. Tackmann, Marius Wiesemann, Giulia Zanderighi, Marco Zaro
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 18 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.18#MPP #DESY #SussexUniversity #INFNMilano_Bicocca #UNIMIB #CERN #PSI #TUM #UNIMI #INFNMilano
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports
Modelling b¯bH production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV
Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk, Matthew A. Lim, Stefano Manzoni, Elena Mazzeo, Javier Mazzitelli, Aparna Sankar, Michael Spira, Frank J. Tackmann, Marius Wiesemann, Giulia Zanderighi, Marco Zaro
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 18 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.18#MPP #DESY #SussexUniversity #INFNMilano_Bicocca #UNIMIB #CERN #PSI #TUM #UNIMI #INFNMilano
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports
Modelling b¯bH production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV
Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk, Matthew A. Lim, Stefano Manzoni, Elena Mazzeo, Javier Mazzitelli, Aparna Sankar, Michael Spira, Frank J. Tackmann, Marius Wiesemann, Giulia Zanderighi, Marco Zaro
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 18 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.18#MPP #DESY #SussexUniversity #INFNMilano_Bicocca #UNIMIB #CERN #PSI #TUM #UNIMI #INFNMilano
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports
Modelling b¯bH production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV
Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk, Matthew A. Lim, Stefano Manzoni, Elena Mazzeo, Javier Mazzitelli, Aparna Sankar, Michael Spira, Frank J. Tackmann, Marius Wiesemann, Giulia Zanderighi, Marco Zaro
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 18 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.18#MPP #DESY #SussexUniversity #INFNMilano_Bicocca #UNIMIB #CERN #PSI #TUM #UNIMI #INFNMilano
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The Passage of Time
The start of this term has been so busy that I forgot that October 1st was the 40th anniversary of the day I officially started as a research student at the University of Sussex (1st October 1985). Reflecting on that event I realized with something approaching horror that 1985 is halfway between 1945 and 2025, so I started my PhD DPhil closer in time to the end of World War 2 than to today. Yikes!
Before travelling to the Sussex to embark on my research degree, I spent a couple of weeks at a summer school for all the new Astronomy PhD students. These are still held annually, although they are now just a week long instead of a fortnight. They are now sponsored by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) but the one I attended was before that came into being, and even before its predecessor, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research PPARC. The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) summer school I went to was held at Durham University; we all stayed in St Mary’s College, just over the road from the Physics Department. I remember it well and indeed still have the notes I took during the lectures there.
Another difference in those days was that we got our stipends paid by cheque – every three months, if I remember correctly – directly from the Research Council. Nowadays STFC gives block grants to universities and other research institutions, who then pay the students.
Anyway, here is the summer school conference picture:
Unfortunately (for such a rare and valuable document) it is slightly damaged on the left -hand side. I leave it up to my readers to identify the people in this group who are still in the business 40 years later. I can see quite a few – Moira Jardine, Alan Fitzsimmons, Melvyn Hoare, Jon Loveday and Alastair Edge, among others! A more complete list can be found here.
I don’t think I’m the only member of this group who is thinking of retiring fairly soon. This post was occasioned by the 40th anniversary of the start of my DPhil; my plan is to retire 40 years after the date of the completion of my thesis. That’s less than three years from now…
"What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. "from Little Gidding V, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
#DurhamUniversity #PhDStudents #PPARC #SERC #STFC #SussexUniversity
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The Passage of Time
The start of this term has been so busy that I forgot that October 1st was the 40th anniversary of the day I officially started as a research student at the University of Sussex (1st October 1985). Reflecting on that event I realized with something approaching horror that 1985 is halfway between 1945 and 2025, so I started my PhD DPhil closer in time to the end of World War 2 than to today. Yikes!
Before travelling to the Sussex to embark on my research degree, I spent a couple of weeks at a summer school for all the new Astronomy PhD students. These are still held annually, although they are now just a week long instead of a fortnight. They are now sponsored by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) but the one I attended was before that came into being, and even before its predecessor, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research PPARC. The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) summer school I went to was held at Durham University; we all stayed in St Mary’s College, just over the road from the Physics Department. I remember it well and indeed still have the notes I took during the lectures there.
Another difference in those days was that we got our stipends paid by cheque – every three months, if I remember correctly – directly from the Research Council. Nowadays STFC gives block grants to universities and other research institutions, who then pay the students.
Anyway, here is the summer school conference picture:
Unfortunately (for such a rare and valuable document) it is slightly damaged on the left -hand side. I leave it up to my readers to identify the people in this group who are still in the business 40 years later. I can see quite a few – Moira Jardine, Alan Fitzsimmons, Melvyn Hoare, Jon Loveday and Alastair Edge, among others! A more complete list can be found here.
I don’t think I’m the only member of this group who is thinking of retiring fairly soon. This post was occasioned by the 40th anniversary of the start of my DPhil; my plan is to retire 40 years after the date of the completion of my thesis. That’s less than three years from now…
"What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. "from Little Gidding V, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
#DurhamUniversity #PhDStudents #PPARC #SERC #STFC #SussexUniversity
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White boy campus rapist, we can guess where he got the notion to "grab it" 😡
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/north-london-rapist-exposed-sexual-32698272
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White boy campus rapist, we can guess where he got the notion to "grab it" 😡
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/north-london-rapist-exposed-sexual-32698272
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White boy campus rapist, we can guess where he got the notion to "grab it" 😡
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/north-london-rapist-exposed-sexual-32698272
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White boy campus rapist, we can guess where he got the notion to "grab it" 😡
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/north-london-rapist-exposed-sexual-32698272
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White boy campus rapist, we can guess where he got the notion to "grab it" 😡
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/north-london-rapist-exposed-sexual-32698272
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Once again I have to use this blog to pass on some very sad news. Professor Peter Thomas of Sussex University passed away last weekend at the age of 62.
Peter Thomas (left) joined the University of Sussex as a lecturer in the Astronomy Centre in 1989 and remained there for his entire career. I know from my own time as Head of School that he was an excellent colleague. who made huge contributions to the University and indeed to his research discipline of cosmology.
Peter studied Mathematics at Cambridge University, graduating in 1983 and then did Part III (also known as the Certificate of Advanced Study) which he obtained in 1984. He stayed in Cambridge to do a PhD in the Institute of Astronomy under the supervision of Andy Fabian on Cooling Flows and Galaxy Formation, which he completed in 1987. He then spent a couple of years in Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) before taking up his lectureship at Sussex in 1989. His main research interests were in in the areas of galaxy formation, including numerical and semi-analytic models, and computer simulations of the formation of clusters of galaxies. He was a widely known and very highly respected researcher in the field of theoretical cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics.
I was a PDRA in the Astronomy Centre at Sussex when Peter joined in 1989; he was Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy when I returned there as Head of School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in 2013, a position he himself subsequently held. He was a much-valued member of staff who made huge contributions to the Astronomy Centre, the Department of Physics & Astronomy, the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the University of Sussex as a whole. I also remember him as a colleague on various panels for PPARC and then STFC on which he served diligently.
Having known Peter for 35 years, and being of similar age, it was a shock to hear that he passed away. I understand that he had been suffering from cancer for over a year. I send my deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. I understand that his funeral will be a private family affair, but there will be a more public occasion to celebrate his life at a later date.
https://telescoper.blog/2024/07/25/r-i-p-peter-thomas-1961-2024/
#astronomy #Cosmology #PeterThomas #Physics #SussexUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge
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And their chaplain is #humanist. This is pretty cool.
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And their chaplain is #humanist. This is pretty cool.
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And their chaplain is #humanist. This is pretty cool.
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And their chaplain is #humanist. This is pretty cool.
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At the new staff event for #SussexUniversity and I just found out that their motto is "Be Still and Know".
I'm into it. -
At the new staff event for #SussexUniversity and I just found out that their motto is "Be Still and Know".
I'm into it. -
At the new staff event for #SussexUniversity and I just found out that their motto is "Be Still and Know".
I'm into it. -
At the new staff event for #SussexUniversity and I just found out that their motto is "Be Still and Know".
I'm into it. -
In our first term at #SussexUniversity in 1966, all arts students were required to read https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71223 (Religion & the Rise of #Capitalism by RH Tawney)
Like the eternal triangle of liberty/equality/fraternity, government by capitalism (liberty), not modified by #egalitarianism (equality) or #morality (fraternity) leads to eg the #ClimateCrisis
So destroy capitalism?
Difficult - would take time.Better - boost equality/fraternity in our #governance?
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In our first term at #SussexUniversity in 1966, all arts students were required to read https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71223 (Religion & the Rise of #Capitalism by RH Tawney)
Like the eternal triangle of liberty/equality/fraternity, government by capitalism (liberty), not modified by #egalitarianism (equality) or #morality (fraternity) leads to eg the #ClimateCrisis
So destroy capitalism?
Difficult - would take time.Better - boost equality/fraternity in our #governance?
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In our first term at #SussexUniversity in 1966, all arts students were required to read https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71223 (Religion & the Rise of #Capitalism by RH Tawney)
Like the eternal triangle of liberty/equality/fraternity, government by capitalism (liberty), not modified by #egalitarianism (equality) or #morality (fraternity) leads to eg the #ClimateCrisis
So destroy capitalism?
Difficult - would take time.Better - boost equality/fraternity in our #governance?
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In our first term at #SussexUniversity in 1966, all arts students were required to read https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71223 (Religion & the Rise of #Capitalism by RH Tawney)
Like the eternal triangle of liberty/equality/fraternity, government by capitalism (liberty), not modified by #egalitarianism (equality) or #morality (fraternity) leads to eg the #ClimateCrisis
So destroy capitalism?
Difficult - would take time.Better - boost equality/fraternity in our #governance?
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In our first term at #SussexUniversity in 1966, all arts students were required to read https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71223 (Religion & the Rise of #Capitalism by RH Tawney)
Like the eternal triangle of liberty/equality/fraternity, government by capitalism (liberty), not modified by #egalitarianism (equality) or #morality (fraternity) leads to eg the #ClimateCrisis
So destroy capitalism?
Difficult - would take time.Better - boost equality/fraternity in our #governance?
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Tonight at #Brighton #cafesci: LASERS! 🔫🔫
Amber Shepherd from #SussexUniversity described her work on detecting dark matter with #lasers. It was indeed as excellent as that sounds.
I also learned you can cool things down (a lot) with lasers.
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Tonight at #Brighton #cafesci: LASERS! 🔫🔫
Amber Shepherd from #SussexUniversity described her work on detecting dark matter with #lasers. It was indeed as excellent as that sounds.
I also learned you can cool things down (a lot) with lasers.
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Tonight at #Brighton #cafesci: LASERS! 🔫🔫
Amber Shepherd from #SussexUniversity described her work on detecting dark matter with #lasers. It was indeed as excellent as that sounds.
I also learned you can cool things down (a lot) with lasers.
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Tonight at #Brighton #cafesci: LASERS! 🔫🔫
Amber Shepherd from #SussexUniversity described her work on detecting dark matter with #lasers. It was indeed as excellent as that sounds.
I also learned you can cool things down (a lot) with lasers.
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Tonight at #Brighton #cafesci: LASERS! 🔫🔫
Amber Shepherd from #SussexUniversity described her work on detecting dark matter with #lasers. It was indeed as excellent as that sounds.
I also learned you can cool things down (a lot) with lasers.
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Well #RIP #AnnieNightingale an amazing woman and a trailblazer in music and broadcasting. I lived in #Brighton when I was at #SussexUniversity and she regularly did DJ nights in various clubs in those days. I never attended one... but her parties really were legendary! Must say she looked amazing for 83 ❤️ https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/01/12/pioneering-brighton-dj-dies/
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Well #RIP #AnnieNightingale an amazing woman and a trailblazer in music and broadcasting. I lived in #Brighton when I was at #SussexUniversity and she regularly did DJ nights in various clubs in those days. I never attended one... but her parties really were legendary! Must say she looked amazing for 83 ❤️ https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/01/12/pioneering-brighton-dj-dies/
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Well #RIP #AnnieNightingale an amazing woman and a trailblazer in music and broadcasting. I lived in #Brighton when I was at #SussexUniversity and she regularly did DJ nights in various clubs in those days. I never attended one... but her parties really were legendary! Must say she looked amazing for 83 ❤️ https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/01/12/pioneering-brighton-dj-dies/
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Well #RIP #AnnieNightingale an amazing woman and a trailblazer in music and broadcasting. I lived in #Brighton when I was at #SussexUniversity and she regularly did DJ nights in various clubs in those days. I never attended one... but her parties really were legendary! Must say she looked amazing for 83 ❤️ https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/01/12/pioneering-brighton-dj-dies/
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Well #RIP #AnnieNightingale an amazing woman and a trailblazer in music and broadcasting. I lived in #Brighton when I was at #SussexUniversity and she regularly did DJ nights in various clubs in those days. I never attended one... but her parties really were legendary! Must say she looked amazing for 83 ❤️ https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/01/12/pioneering-brighton-dj-dies/