Matt LeBlanc
@boostamos.bsky.social
Particle physics at @brownphysics.bsky.social🧪
Member of @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at @cern.bsky.social 🔬
I measure particle jets! 🎉 https://leblanc.physics.brown.edu/
Member of @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at @cern.bsky.social 🔬
I measure particle jets! 🎉 https://leblanc.physics.brown.edu/
Congratulations to the class of 2025! 🎓🎉@brownphysics.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Congratulations to the class of 2025! 🎓🎉@brownphysics.bsky.social
Tomorrow's lecture in my class is about pitfalls to avoid when designing figures -- quite a fun topic to prepare! 🧪
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tomorrow's lecture in my class is about pitfalls to avoid when designing figures -- quite a fun topic to prepare! 🧪
… and today, another @ippog.bsky.social masterclass! With six high school classes, we discussed proton structure, jets, and how AI intersects with particle physics. It was a treat to moderate the VC with one of @atlasexperiment.bsky.social’s most ‘heavy metal’ physicists, Martin Rybar!🧪🔬
March 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
… and today, another @ippog.bsky.social masterclass! With six high school classes, we discussed proton structure, jets, and how AI intersects with particle physics. It was a treat to moderate the VC with one of @atlasexperiment.bsky.social’s most ‘heavy metal’ physicists, Martin Rybar!🧪🔬
I was happy to host an @ippog.bsky.social particle physics masterclass VC today! High school students from Poland & Greece compared LHC data analyses, and asked about life working at @cern.bsky.social. 🧪🔬
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I was happy to host an @ippog.bsky.social particle physics masterclass VC today! High school students from Poland & Greece compared LHC data analyses, and asked about life working at @cern.bsky.social. 🧪🔬
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
I once again want to plug one of the 'simple tool' websites I use the most when prepping #physics talks and lectures: www.unicodeit.net, made by @svenkreiss.bsky.social and Kyle Cramner.
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I once again want to plug one of the 'simple tool' websites I use the most when prepping #physics talks and lectures: www.unicodeit.net, made by @svenkreiss.bsky.social and Kyle Cramner.
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
I took advantage of the holiday weekend to get some lecture prep done, and clearly made the most of it. 🧪
February 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I took advantage of the holiday weekend to get some lecture prep done, and clearly made the most of it. 🧪
Getting ready to teach some Modern Physics this term … 🧪
January 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Getting ready to teach some Modern Physics this term … 🧪
Nova Scotian sunrise 🌅🦞🇨🇦
December 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Nova Scotian sunrise 🌅🦞🇨🇦
The original @cern.bsky.social x Lego collab? 🧪
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
April 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
The original @cern.bsky.social x Lego collab? 🧪
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
Getting ready for the kick-off event for CERN’s 70th anniversary this year, a set of discussions about art & science. You can follow along online here! www.youtube.com/live/JNPnrfQ...
January 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Getting ready for the kick-off event for CERN’s 70th anniversary this year, a set of discussions about art & science. You can follow along online here! www.youtube.com/live/JNPnrfQ...
Today is my first day as research faculty at Brown! Getting settled in, need to next bring in some books and plants … 📚
January 8, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Today is my first day as research faculty at Brown! Getting settled in, need to next bring in some books and plants … 📚
I had a great time at DESY this week learning about the bleeding-edge of AI in particle physics at #ML4Jets2023! Many thanks to the organisers @GregorKasieczka, @freyablekman, & all for their hospitality! 🔬🎉🤖🧪
November 10, 2023 at 2:04 PM
I had a great time at DESY this week learning about the bleeding-edge of AI in particle physics at #ML4Jets2023! Many thanks to the organisers @GregorKasieczka, @freyablekman, & all for their hospitality! 🔬🎉🤖🧪
Saturday morning hike in Zermatt ... ⛰
August 19, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Saturday morning hike in Zermatt ... ⛰
Getting high-quality signals w/o noise from pile-up is one of the biggest experimental challenges at the #LHC. We're improving @ATLASexperiment reconstruction in #Run3 w/ timing information⏰ and #AI🤖, presented this week at #BOOST23! learn more: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Signal-Noise 🧪
August 2, 2023 at 4:07 PM
Getting high-quality signals w/o noise from pile-up is one of the biggest experimental challenges at the #LHC. We're improving @ATLASexperiment reconstruction in #Run3 w/ timing information⏰ and #AI🤖, presented this week at #BOOST23! learn more: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Signal-Noise 🧪
Arrival in California 🌴🌺🌁
July 31, 2023 at 3:52 AM
Arrival in California 🌴🌺🌁
And because good things often come in pairs at the LHC, please enjoy this second event display of another would-be-signal-candidate! 🧪✌️✌️
July 28, 2023 at 8:47 AM
And because good things often come in pairs at the LHC, please enjoy this second event display of another would-be-signal-candidate! 🧪✌️✌️
For the connoisseurs : this is the distribution of events in the search in the m4j-<m2j> plane... 🧪
July 28, 2023 at 8:40 AM
For the connoisseurs : this is the distribution of events in the search in the m4j-<m2j> plane... 🧪
It was a lot of fun to work on a search again! We didn't see any significant 4-jet resonances in the
@ATLASexperiment
Run 2 data, but if we had, it could have looked something like this. You can read about this search today on the
@arxiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14944 (🎉🎉)(🎉🎉) 🧪
@ATLASexperiment
Run 2 data, but if we had, it could have looked something like this. You can read about this search today on the
@arxiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14944 (🎉🎉)(🎉🎉) 🧪
July 28, 2023 at 8:39 AM
It was a lot of fun to work on a search again! We didn't see any significant 4-jet resonances in the
@ATLASexperiment
Run 2 data, but if we had, it could have looked something like this. You can read about this search today on the
@arxiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14944 (🎉🎉)(🎉🎉) 🧪
@ATLASexperiment
Run 2 data, but if we had, it could have looked something like this. You can read about this search today on the
@arxiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14944 (🎉🎉)(🎉🎉) 🧪
Finally at home for long enough to see the hibiscus blooming -- two at once today! 🌺🌺
July 15, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Finally at home for long enough to see the hibiscus blooming -- two at once today! 🌺🌺
On Twitter, I mostly followed scientists: here, I hardly follow anyone.
So, scientists, please introduce yourselves and share your best STEM follows (of all stripes)!
So, scientists, please introduce yourselves and share your best STEM follows (of all stripes)!
July 11, 2023 at 12:19 PM
On Twitter, I mostly followed scientists: here, I hardly follow anyone.
So, scientists, please introduce yourselves and share your best STEM follows (of all stripes)!
So, scientists, please introduce yourselves and share your best STEM follows (of all stripes)!
It was a treat to talk about a photon & multijet measurements from the LHC at #SMatLHC 2023 today! Although I couldn't go to @Fermilab, hopefully I still illuminated the many results of @ATLASexperiment
& @CMSExperiment
from afar.💡🎉🔬
& @CMSExperiment
from afar.💡🎉🔬
July 10, 2023 at 6:23 PM
It was a treat to talk about a photon & multijet measurements from the LHC at #SMatLHC 2023 today! Although I couldn't go to @Fermilab, hopefully I still illuminated the many results of @ATLASexperiment
& @CMSExperiment
from afar.💡🎉🔬
& @CMSExperiment
from afar.💡🎉🔬
Evidence that people have made it back to CERN from the Vancouver ATLAS Week.
July 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Evidence that people have made it back to CERN from the Vancouver ATLAS Week.
Good morning from #CERN! I'm a scientist studying quarks and gluons with the #ATLASexperiment, to learn about the #StrongForce and search for new particles.
You can expect:
🎉 The latest results with jets
☕️ Slice of life around CERN
❌ Next to nothing about the 90s sitcom #Friends (wrong guy)
You can expect:
🎉 The latest results with jets
☕️ Slice of life around CERN
❌ Next to nothing about the 90s sitcom #Friends (wrong guy)
July 3, 2023 at 7:48 AM
Good morning from #CERN! I'm a scientist studying quarks and gluons with the #ATLASexperiment, to learn about the #StrongForce and search for new particles.
You can expect:
🎉 The latest results with jets
☕️ Slice of life around CERN
❌ Next to nothing about the 90s sitcom #Friends (wrong guy)
You can expect:
🎉 The latest results with jets
☕️ Slice of life around CERN
❌ Next to nothing about the 90s sitcom #Friends (wrong guy)