A new physicist on the scene May 29, 2007
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Christopher Neu, a colleague in CDF where he co-leads the High-Pt b-tagging working group, announced yesterday the birth of her daughter Madeline Jane. Chris has worked with me in the group that recently produced a new measurement of the b-jet energy scale from a fit of the peak of Z decays to b-quark pairs. He gave an important contribution to our work by taking care of the trigger collecting our events, which has required constant care in the last few years due to its large cross section, which showed a quadratic rise with instantaneous luminosity - something which often plagues track and calorimeter-based triggers at the Tevatron.
Here is a nice picture of the new father and daughter together:
Auditorium shot for the CDF week May 29, 2007
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Just a quick picture of the auditorium here at IN2P3 where the second day of the 2007 CDF week is starting with a summary talk on the exotics group activities:
The cartoon on the slide shows two explorers looking at a tiny pyramid emerging from the sand, one of them saying “This could be the discovery of the century, depending, of course, on how deep down it goes.”
The Say of the Week May 29, 2007
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“Those who can remember the past may still be condemned to repeat it“
Chris Hays (after Santayana), speaking on the past history of discoveries and ensuing understanding of fundamental physics.
