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Symmetry Magazine features BaBar Data and Event Display

Symmetry Magazine, a joint publication of Fermilab and SLAC, presented its third issue today. The “centerfold” of the issue features a BaBar event containing the Ds*(2317)+ particle, “discovered at BaBar in 2003”:http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0304021. Thanks to Dr. Antimo Palano, who harvested the particle candidates from BaBar’s immense data set, I was able to produce an event display image that showed the striking isolation of the decaying DsJ*(2317)+ in the detector. This image was the central feature of the article, which is a description of the detector information and the detectable particles from the decay.

“Deconstruction: Event Display”:http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/?pid=1000057