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Quantum Diaries Relax, the year is over!
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The year is officially over in more than half the world as I write these words. As every year comes to an end, it’s time to celebrate and to put to practice many traditions. Among these traditions, ...
Quantum Diaries Busy December
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I’m not a teacher, but I was very busy this month. Now I have some free time so I met my friends drinking beer, and went to the hiking in Chiba.
Quantum Diaries At Taipei and Kyoto
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Last week I have visited National Taiwan Normal University to give a talk at Taiwan string theory workshop 2010. This is in fact I guess 6th or 7th time visit to Taiwan, as I ama very frequent visitor to the Taiwan string theory group. ...
Quantum Diaries Deceleration
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The last lecture and the last meetings for this year are done, and I’ve just returned the second iteration of the proofs for my STAR spin physics paper to the journal.
Quantum Diaries Looking forward to 2010!
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2009 has been a spectacular year for me and for the world of physics! My time spent thus far at Fermilab has been amazing. I’ve gotten to become an “ACE” on the experiment CDF (Collider ...
Quantum Diaries So you built the world's highest energy particle accelerator
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What’s the first thing you do? Find the Higgs? Well, actually, you measure charged hadron spectra (see the first paper with LHC collision data from ALICE). It’s something all the LHC experiments are doing, so In case you were wondering why (or what), thought I’d try to explain.
Quantum Diaries Christmas upside down
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While everybody else is reporting on the possibility of white Christmas, I am actually sitting in shorts and T-shirt while typing this blog entry. Today we have 33 degrees plus and in two days I will be on the beach. ...
Quantum Diaries From the Aquarium
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Three weeks spent in hotel rooms are over. After one week in Munich, one in Geneva and one in Paris, we are in Zürich now. This is somewhat of an improvement, since we are staying at my mother’s ...
Quantum Diaries Dark days for science: STFC to drop UK involvement with ALICE
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I have, in the last 48 hours, returned to the UK from my 18 month attachment at CERN. It feels great to be home again. My time there has been incredible and life-changing, but it also demonstrated that ...
Quantum Diaries Acceleration
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For the last two and a half days I’ve been at CERN, for a variety of meetings, including a two day workshop on the possibilities of a demonstration experiment for proton-driven plasma wakefield ...
Quantum Diaries Trying to stay healthy and sane
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We’re currently in a period of 5 weeks away from home. While part of this period consists of family visits, most of it we have spent in hotel rooms.At home I have regular eating habits and a regular exercise regime which includes running, going to the gym, and attending ballet and yoga classes. ...
Quantum Diaries 2009
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sending us greetings through our communication channel(you can find here the status of the beam in real time http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHC1)
Quantum Diaries A showcase for the universe
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Last week on Tuesday night my wife and I were invited to the opening ceremony of a new exhibition in the Deutsches Museum, the biggest science and technology museum in Germany. The exhibition, called “The ...
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後輩のY君と話していた時に、「理系は文系を馬鹿にしていると思われているか否か」という話になりました。ちょっと複雑ですね。つまり、理系であるところのY君が文系であるところのY君の友達に「理系は文系を馬鹿にしている」と言われたらしいのです。それは言外に「理系（Y君）は文系（俺）のことを馬鹿にしている」と言われたんじゃないかな、と思いましたが、Y君の友情についてはひとまず置いておいて、現実にそういうことがあるでしょうか。あまり理系文系を意識しなくても、という方もいらっしゃるでしょう。もちろん人と個人として付き合う時には、「文系は論理的でない」「理系は情緒が分からない」などと言い合うのは愚かな話で、そ...
Quantum Diaries A very exciting week
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PAST:SLAC public tours have started up again! On Tuesday the first public tour (in about 2 years) took place. I was not guiding the tour, but tagged along to prepare for future tours. There were about 10 people on the tour, a nice group (in both size and temperament) for the first run. ...
