The Say of the Week June 28, 2006
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“No! I vermi carnivori no!” (No! Not the meat-eating worms!)
Ornella Muti, in “Flash Gordon”
End to a line of research June 28, 2006
Posted by dorigo in news, personal, physics.3 comments
Today the CDF-Padova group had a marathon meeting in order to discuss a plan for the next three years.
I will give some more detail on it later, but suffices to say that we sort of agreed to something I consider rather crazy.
Basically, despite the fact that our group has been very successful with measurements in CDF using hadronic jets and all-hadronic signatures, and despite the fact that we recently demonstrated how to extract top quark decays in a way nobody had thought of before, producing CDF’s third-best cross section measurement in that sample, we decided to abandon the research on top quark physics altogether. Not an executive decision yet, but a green light to it.
This is very sad and difficult to accept for me, especially since that line of research would provide an opportunity of producing lots of physics measurements in the top quark sector, with minimal effort. Maybe four or five papers in the next three years, authored by us.
Others in CDF will hopefully continue our work…
The problem has to do with the fact that next year I will invest 70% of my time in CMS, and the three other staff members prefer to join in the forces for the search of the Higgs boson with an improved trigger. More on that later.
