Category Archives: Physics

Writing my thesis


Since I had some complains about me not writing anything in my blog for a while and people gettin upset about it… here we go!
Unfortunately I don’t do a lot these days besides writing and working, ergo there’s not much to write about! So I uploaded a picture of my desk/workplace/home ;-)

Well, you gotta cheer me up with some nice comments ;-)

CERN > Freiburg > Wuppertal > Berlin

The way back from the glaciers of the French alps we (Heike and me) started with an enjoyable night on the floor of Esbens CERN hostel room (thanx again) … as it turned out this was not the right way to recover after a day of snowboarding …

The next step on the journey was Freiburg where we were visiting some friends of mine I met at a summer university this year …
After dropping of Heike at the train-station (she had to go back to Berlin) I enjoyed another day in Freiburg and continued my journey …

The last stop before Berlin was the beautiful city of Wuppertal…
Climbing some hills, eating cookies, visiting the university built in the adorable style of the 70s and of course taking the “Schwebebahn Wuppertal” … this thing is over 100 years old! And for all you train-geeks here’s a little video

THE MACHINE

Today I had another opportunity to visit THE MACHINE…
Some people keep calling it ATLAS, I just call it THE MACHINE!
You can see


Still it is overwhelming and beautiful at the same time…
and a lot has changed since last time.
You can follow the build-up by watching the webcams.

ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) Barrel

Yesterday the ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) Barrel was tranported and installed into ATLAS. This includes the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) barrel which is the machine I am mostly working on…
It’s getting closer and closer to the point where the real physics will start…

Back again

Finally I am back in Copenhagen and online…

Horrible Internet connection/availability in Strasbourg… anyway!
The school was nice… even though it can’t reach the CERN one… also due to the lack of PPJB

btw I met some people from CERN during the school, like Susanne (GER), Laura (GER) and of course Katrin (DK)…

I managed to get all the stats for the World Cup Gamble done and now I am just waiting for the winners to get their prizes… ;-) Congrats to Shaun, Heike, Katrin and hansaspieler!

Now I am fighting myself through a big pile of emails in my accounts from the last two weeks…
damit… being offline really stinks… how can people manage?
Somehow I get the fealing I am an Internet addict?! nevermind… could be worse!

Now I need some sleep…
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