Comments on: Searching for gold… http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/06/29/searching-for-gold/ Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. Thu, 16 May 2013 16:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anna Phan http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/06/29/searching-for-gold/#comment-7962 Anna Phan Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:54:19 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=11315#comment-7962 Dear Steve,

Unfortunately no, some information has to be discarded because we cannot physically save it fast enough. The triggers are designed to be as inclusive as possible and we also record a very small fraction of all collision events to check that we’re not missing anything.

Cheers,
Anna

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