All posts by Sascha

Experimentarium – Body Worlds

11 June 2011CopenhagenSascha

This week I had an old friend (greetz Shaun) staying at our Copenhagen Guest Couch. As the weather has been kinda Copenhagen style and he has already been here back when I did my masters, we decided to go to one of the museums in town … the final choice turned out to be the Experimentarium, for which I had free tickets as a thank you for the tours I gave during the CERN exhibition earlier this year …

They currently had a Gunther von Hagens exhibition called Body World showing real plastinated bodies. Even though I knew most of it already from a previous exhibition in Berlin, it is still quite fascinating to see all the details …

Also the permanent exhibition, featuring all sorts of hands-on exhibits was very nice … and everything, though mainly meant for children, was explained in Danish, Swedish and English!

The only thing that left a slight bitter taste is the fact that a regular visit would cost an adult 22 Euros (children 14 Euros)!?!

Who the he** can afford that on a regular basis?

Aerosol nucleation induced by a high energy particle beam

10 June 2011CERN, Publication of the MonthSascha

Clouds made with particle beams: atmosphere and particle physics meet in the lab!

My new publication of the month might actually something I might get into touch with sooner or later …

Make your own Arcade Fire video with HTML5

8 June 2011Movies, Music, World Wide WebSascha

Get a recent browser such as Chrome 12 and visit http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/.

It features their new song “We Used To Wait” … and images from your own place if you like.

Very nice example … find more at http://www.chromeexperiments.com/.

Dinner for two at Noma

1 June 2011Copenhagen, FoodSascha

This year we got a special treat as birthday present from my parents, my sister and her boyfriend … we are going to the world’s best restaurant, Noma. The restaurent situated at Copenhagen harbour has been voted best for two years in a row now.

Hmm… I am soo much looking forward!

And I just got a confirmation for a table in September!!!

Updates on the unknown

31 May 2011CERNSascha

CDF (one of the collider experiments at Fermilab) has just presented another update on their April paper on the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson. In the latter one they discussed an excess in the 120-160 GeV/c^2 mass range with a significance of 3.2 sigma. They do not dare to give an exact number but claim to be closer to 5 sigma now!?

Unfortunately, though announced several times, the D0 collaboration has not published any similar analysis yet…

Also the result is not backed by all members of the collaboration …
so it remains exciting and CDF still owes us a good explanation …