It’s summer for physics. That means a “large number of physics conferences”:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/conf/wwwbrief?rawcmd=FIND+DATE+%3E+MAY+2005+AND+DATE+%3C+OCTOBER+2005+AND+%28TITLE+PARTICLE+or+TITLE+LEPTON%29
and lots of results to get out the door. It also means all my MIT colleagues are right here at SLAC, instead of spread all over the place with teaching responsibilities,classes, exams, or travel. It also means that I get more time in my day to work on my own research. No more seminars or conferences for me to go to!
In that spirit, I’ve jumped back into my search for invisible decays of bottomonium. This is motivated by several factors: more time for me to work on it, the “appearance of Bob McElrath’s paper on these decays on the arXiv”:http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0506151, and a sudden burst of fresh experimental ideas that all need consideration to make this measurement work.
