Xiaohang Quan ’09 was working on her senior thesis when she found a miscalculation in a detector attached to the world’s largest particle accelerator.
Quan, a physics concentrator, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, last week with physics professors Christopher Tully GS ’98, Jim Olsen and Daniel Marlow for the annual meeting of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). This year, however, they also came to discuss Quan’s discovery with the designers of the hardware for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, which, as part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has the potential to revolutionize particle physics.
In the hardware used to record and capture events in the LHC, she discovered errors that were leading to the appearances of double images because of particle streams known as jets.
Built by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the LHC is today's leading-edge particle accelerator[1] which is built primarily to confirm the existence of the contestable 'Higgs Boson' or 'the god particle'. The LHC will attest the presence of an orphic particle "0". The LHC in Geneva is built with ambition, the total energy stored in it's device magnet can be measured at about 10 GJ (equivalent to one and a half barrels of oil or 2.4 tons of TNT).
Zoso
WE'RE ALL GUNNA DIE!
Sunsnail
neat
d_bag
Double images, that's ok.
As long as they don't F**K up the black hole containment device.
boris_the_bear
Microsoft Hadron Collider
or it's rival
the Apple iCollide
iammesol
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Originally posted by boris_the_bear
Apple iCollide
:stongue:
Lebezniatnikov
So they're turning on the Hardon again?
kadomony
1.21 jiggawatts
Omega_M
nice!
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Quan’s thesis focuses on the various jet selection criteria for the LHC and finding which algorithms will be most efficient for analysis of the physics
Good lord what a topic to select for senior level thesis.
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she was surprised when she discovered a discrepancy between her predictions and results when drawing her initial plots.
That needs some quality work right there, to be able to say that the results are wrong and not her theory.
smellyblack
since we are talking about hardons i have an extra copy of this for sale.
will collide my hard on with yours if you pay more.
