Comments on: Which is the best LHC detector… http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/08/08/bestlhcdetector/ 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: anil http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/08/08/bestlhcdetector/#comment-9516 anil Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:29:14 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=12732#comment-9516 anna
tell me what is going on LHC experiment.what will be the future of its findings

]]> By: Brian Dorney http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/08/08/bestlhcdetector/#comment-9420 Brian Dorney Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:40:34 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=12732#comment-9420 Anna,

Great Post, and great comparison.

But, how about we make a friendly wager on this; say, in the |eta|<1.4 region? Winning Collaboration get's a free lunch? ;-P

Joke's aside, LHCb is king of the hill for B-Physics at LHC. And I wouldn't have thought to use FWHM for a detector performance comparison, thanks for pointing this out!

-Brian

]]> By: Richard Mitnick http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/08/08/bestlhcdetector/#comment-9256 Richard Mitnick Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:47:30 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=12732#comment-9256 I hope that everyone has seen the article at interactions.org about the new project LHC@home 2.0 running on BOINC software. The project url is http://boinc01.cern.ch/.

The article is at http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1030964.

BOINC software, developed at UC Berkeley, can provide a virtual supercomputer to the projects running on it. The largest project currently is SETI@home, the birthplace of BOINC. SETI@home is at just about a half a PetaFLOP, which would put it at about 14th on the TOP500 if it was actually counted.

So, jump on board with LHC@home 2.0 and help us get there are rival SETI@home.

There is nothing more important than the LHC in basic research today. We aim to be a real part of the search for Higgs.

]]> By: Anna Phan http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/08/08/bestlhcdetector/#comment-9244 Anna Phan Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:22:44 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=12732#comment-9244 Hi Nick,

I didn’t really want to comment on the differences between the ATLAS and CMS results… However, since you asked, I think the mass resolution differences have more to do with the differences between the ATLAS and CMS tracking subdetectors than the muon spectrometers.

I would hazard a guess that the different magnetic field strengths make a difference on the accuracy of the momentum measurements, as would the different detector techonologies, the CMS tracker being fully silicon, while the ATLAS tracker being a combination of silicon and transition radiation straws.

Cheers,
Anna

]]> By: nsetzer http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/08/08/bestlhcdetector/#comment-9232 nsetzer Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:19:34 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=12732#comment-9232 With your title you may have just inadvertently started a war.

Do you know why ATLAS is having such a hard time with the momenta (particularly in the forward region as I thought that the T of ATLAS meant they’d do better than CMS there)?

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