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 […]
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Well, I suppose it’s not exactly **rocking** the Northeast, but it’s definitely snowing again. From inside the house, it didn’t look like very formidable snow. However, after a thorough cleaning of the sidewalks and the car, a single intervening half-hour was all that was required to covere everything in snow […]
Despite the bad winter storm that dumped upwards of 35 inches of snow in New England, I was able to get back to Boston yesterday with few flight delays. After an uneventful first leg of the trip from San Fran to Chicago (Midway), we were delayed by a half-hour. We […]
This has been one hell of a week. After a weekend of hopping planes and renting cars, I showed up at MIT on Tuesday ready to settle down for three weeks of neutrino physics. The lump in my left eyelid, however, was a serious concern to me. What didn’t help […]