Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 07:00:18 EDT
Stephen SekulaFrom freyablekman@sciencemastodon.com on Mastodon: # CMSPaper 1216: The η (=eta) is a special particle.This paper finds a new way the η can decay: into four muons. This is important because it measures muon-photon interactions, and quite accurately at that. That is a precision test of theory predictions, including some inputs to the muonic magnetic dipole moment. These decays are very rare, and used specially designed new @ CMSexperiment triggers to collect this sample! http:// cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-re sults/public-results/publications/BPH-22-003/index.html # science # particlephysics # cern # discovery # alttext
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 20:50:20 EDT
Stephen SekulaHad an absolutely excellent time again today in the underground laboratory at SNOLAB. Worked with the PICO team to put another ~6000 liters of water in the shield tank. Ran a little experiment over at HALO involving Newton’s Laws and Maxwell’s Equations. Scoped out some oxygen sensors for a summer research project. Oh, and had a great time streaming a sample loaded into the ultra-sensitive gamma ray counters in the Low Background Counting laboratory for the CAPSS Summer School participants!
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 04:55:20 EDT
Stephen SekulaYesterday was a busy day! In addition to management activities, it was great to begin welcoming summer research students to # SNOLAB and to begin data quality “shifting” for # HALO . Also kept thinking (and calculating) about evaporation and other ways of losing water from the # PICO shield tank as we plan to continue filling the water shield.
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 04:55:17 EDT
Stephen SekulaA discussion about the outcome of an international summit on the future of “neutrinoless double beta decay” and the goal of attracting a next-generation tonne-scale experiment to SNOLAB. https://www. cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-41- morning-north/clip/15983256-sudburys-snolab-considered-400-million-us-dollar-experiment # MorningNorth # CBC # SNOLAB # 0vbb # neutrino # undergroundscience