Yesterday I came back from a short visit to Rome, joining the ATLAS LLP workshop to get the 2011 analyses and myself started.
Besides the very nice workshop, we had a good time doing some New York Times recommended dining at Felice a Testaccio and Da Franco Ar Vicoletto and some sight seeing in Rome at above 25 degrees …
Just for the fact book: the meeting took place at Sapienza, being the largest university in Europe with about 147.000 students.
After a stunning decent to Geneva airport, looking over the snowcapped mountains, a Big Bang Theory marathon and watching Armadillo yesterday, I just came back to the place where everything started at CERN: the NBI office 32 S-A10.
Finally … I got my diploma today!
So I am officially Dr. Mehlhase now :)
Woooooohoooo
ATLAS just issues the latest release of its e-news, officially announcing the first W boson candidate events in the LHC … which of course reminds me of my nice little master thesis on the W mass measurement at ATLAS.
Below are illustrations of the two candidates: one W decaying into an electron (left) and one into a muon (right), of course both accompanied by the according neutrino, represented by missing energy (ETmiss) in the event.
For all of you interested in an Update on the Large Hadron Collider, the current Director General of CERN Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer will give a talk at Urania Berlin on Monday, April 26th at 19h00.
