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Kiwi Particle Physicist: April 2006

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April 25, 2006. Oops I was going to upload this yesterday, but I lost the cable to get the photos off the camera. Better late than never. Just thought I’d post a summary of the stuff we saw on the trip. Midday on Friday to go to SPring-8. The following photo was taken at the laser reverse Compton scattering experimental hutch, where Nakano. Claimed to have found the first evidence. After we finished the tour of SPring-8 we went to Harima Observatory. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 1:23 AM. Overall ...

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: July 2006

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July 12, 2006. Just had the KEK relay yesterday evening. Each team consists of five people who run the same 2km course, and a total of 11 teams from the various experiments and subgroups in KEK took part. I was in one of the two teams from the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Sciences (IPNS). IPNS A (red bibs) and IPNS B (white bibs). Before . Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 10:56 PM. Links to this post. July 11, 2006. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 12:17 AM. Links to this post. July 07, 2006.

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: June 2006

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June 28, 2006. Overall the reception from our professor and the second year masters students and doctors students was pretty good, but the new students were fairly quiet throughout the whole ordeal. I’ll have to try a bit harder for the next talk. On the bright side, one of the kouhais sounded interested, and is thinking of attending the ILC school the next time it is held. Suprisingly accurate comic courtesy of PhD. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 6:58 PM. Links to this post. June 25, 2006. As far ...

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: May 2006

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May 28, 2006. Overall I picked up a lot more than I thought I would. There were a lot of other students who were also from non-accelerator physics backgrounds, and they all seemed to enjoy the course as well. Hopefully I will get the chance to take part in another of these in a few years time. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 11:42 PM. Links to this post. May 26, 2006. It still gives me warm fuzzies inside whenever I get to see one of these machines up close. They’re such amazing creations. I...Which...

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: September 2006

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September 28, 2006. The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced a week from today, on Tuesday October 3. Peter Woit. Has a post about it, with people discussing their favourites it the comments. The leading contenders at the moment seem to be:. 1) The COBE and WMAP teams, for their discovery of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background, and. 2) Michael Berry and Yakir Aharonov, for theoretical condensed matter physics. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 12:29 PM. Links to this post.

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: October 2006

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October 25, 2006. Congratulations to CDF on the discovery of the Sigma b plus and the Sigma b minus, the first baryons to contain a bottom (b)-quark. Has a good post on the discovery, where he shows the graph below of the mass distribution of the Sigma b candidates they found, and there is also a good explanation of the discovery on the Physorg. Page, from where I borrowed the above diagram. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 2:58 PM. Links to this post. October 16, 2006. Links to this post. This year ...

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: November 2006

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November 17, 2006. During the meeting two days ago we heard that the KEKB accelerator team had reached a new world record luminosity. Of 17/nb/s. It’s been over a year since we hit 16/nb/s, so it’s well overdue. Oide san, who is in charge of the accelerator, promised us we would have 30/nb/s by this time next year though. We were originally planning on having a party last night anyway, like we do for every BGM, but it took on a new meaning with this result. More photos are here. Links to this post. I'm a...

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Kiwi Particle Physicist: March 2006

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March 31, 2006. I popped in to Freyberg, my old high school, for a visit yesterday. The place has changed a bit since I was last there, it's bigger with lots of new classrooms, but it still feels familiar. It was good to see all my old teachers again too. Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 7:08 AM. Links to this post. March 25, 2006. Ssh exchange identification: Connection closed by remote host. Does anybody know how to get around this? Posted by Kiwi Particle Physicist at 6:31 PM. Links to this post.