News from CERN

Posted by KJ on October 20, 2009  •  Comments (0)  • 

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now cold at 1.9K. The eight sectors are now being commissioned with 6kA of current. Beam injection into the LHC is still planned for mid-November. Meanwhile, the ATLAS experiment has moved to 24 hr operation of collecting cosmic ray data. One area of intense activity is finalizing the Data Quality Assessment (DQA) machinery for the experiment. This is an area in which we are have significant responsibility, having written the DQA software for the CSC muon detectors and the High Level Trigger (HLT) jet and missing Et triggers.

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Posted by KJ in the future  •  Comments (0)  • 

This is my new web site and I haven't decided what to post here yet. I am frenetically preparing for beam at the LHC like everyone else. Some link to something interesting