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A bit of nostalgia –
W-boson mass

13 December 2016CERN, PhysicsSascha

Today Maarten Boonekamp, whom I had the pleasure to work with for my master thesis, presented the latest update on the measurement of the W-boson mass with ATLAS. In fact a subject I wrote part of thesis about and had my name on a physics paper for the first time. Not yet the precision predicted in the paper, but it’s also not yet the stats and certainly not the centre-of-mass energy assumed therein. Yet it’s a competitive measurement (80.370 GeV ± 0.019 GeV) in full agreement with the Standard Model.

A conference note will be published today and a paper is to follow soon.

Freeze

7 December 2016CERN, Geneva, OutreachSascha

While being at CERN last week, I stumbled into what is apparently known as a mannequin challenge. Learned something and had some fun, as you can see ay 0:13 and 0:23 :)

Fotohalbmarathon 2016

30 October 2016Fotohalbmarathon, PhotographySascha

The prizes for this year’s Fotohalbmarathon are ready and on their way to the winning teams!

Building a lighthouse

30 October 2016Erik, Family & Friends, Karla, MunichSascha

Spent the past two days building a piggy bank in the shape of a lighthouse. It’s supposed to help collect donations to the parents’ council in our kids’ day care centre … let’s see if it works.

Easier than expected

14 October 2016Computers and ITSascha

As a follow up to my recent and voluntary change from a hard disk drive to a solid state disk in my MacBook, I just had to do the same for my iMac. Unfortunately, this time it wasn’t voluntary and slightly more complicated. That’s at least what I thought beforehand. Turns out … despite the fact that one has to take out the screen and ideally put in a new temperature sensor, it’s actually quite simple and done in less than 30 minutes. Which is in fact much less time than it took to restore the disk image on the new drive (several hours via USB). Anyways, up to now everything appears to be stable and even a bit faster than before … I’m starting to get the hang of taking apart Apple products ;)