Category Archives: Physics

Back again

France, Physics

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…
Bis den

Things to come

CERN

Today the Scientific Policy Committee (SPC) of CERN released a first final plan for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC):
– beam pipe closure at the end of August ’07
– followed by LHC commissioning runs at 450+450 GeV (till end of ’07)
– shut-down for final machine commissioning
– followed by first physics runs at 14 TeV (full luminosity by end of ’08)

This might sound strange and boring for all non-physicists (even for some of them), but it’s at least a bit interesting for all those working for/at CERN…

I wonder if the B40-masterpiece will still be there at this time… PPJB rulez!

Danish student

Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institue

looks like I might actually become a danish student quite soon… since I just got the results (8.5/9.0) of my IELTS exam, being the last hurdle to take…
let’s cross fingers that they wont find some new bureaucratic barrier

now the only thing that’s left is the actual thesis.