Yesterday, ATLAS recorded the first beam-splash events of the year!
First signs of this year’s physics programme … looking forward!
Find out more here.
Beam’s back
Category Archives: CERN
12 years CERN
Today it’s exactly twelve years that I have my CERN account :)
I first got it on 8 March 2005 when starting my internship in the high-energy-physics group at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, thereby laying the foundation of all that came afterwards … great people, great physics, great places … looking forward to more of all :)
Once again …
… we failed in getting a LEGO model of LHC experiments through the LEGO Ideas review.
After failing with my mini ATLAS model in 2014, yesterday LEGO finally rejected Nathan Readioff’s LHC micro models as well. Looks like we have to come up with yet another idea/design to finally reach our goal ;)
25 years of ATLAS
Based on the submission date of the Letter of Intend, 1 October 1992, the ATLAS Experiment will turn 25 years this autumn and I will have the pleasure to organise a live event on the actual birthday as well as an internal celebration during the Bratislava ATLAS Week in October … while getting caught in this, I noticed that, based on this calculation, I have been with ATLAS for half of its life (and a third of mine) by then.
A bit of nostalgia –
W-boson mass
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.
