Category Archives: CERN

W mass in ATLAS e-News

The ATLAS e-News recently published an article written by Troels (my former supervisor) about the forseen precision measurement of the W boson mass at ATLAS. Illustrating the development of the measured value and its uncertainty and giving a short summary of the results we published in our note (to be published soon, hopefully).
I am, amoung others, also mentioned in the end :-)
(picture from LEP EWWG)

Meet and Greet with Peter Jenni

Yesterday I had a little meet and greet with Peter Jenni, the spokesman of the ATLAS experiment. He has given a sort of “understandable-for-everyone” talk in the Helmholtz Lectures Program at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Afterwards we’ve been invited to a little reception, where I had the chance to talk a bit to our btw. very nice spokesman about this and that … unfortunately no pictures have been made this evening :-(

The Machine

Another time me and the machine, ATLAS! Its alwas a moving moment to see this masterpiece of physics engineering, especially for me doing all of the actual work in front of a computer and never really getting in touch with the hardware. You feel this certain satisfaction, when walking through the little radiation protection tunnel with a small blue door at the end to then enter the huge canvern, housing the now almost as huge ATLAS detector. Simply one of the coolest things ever…