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Guest post by Daria Dvorzhitskaia
CMS's Higgs Boson Goose Game showcased at Italian science festival
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This is a guest post by CMS collaborator Francesca Cavallo, who is one of the creators of the Higgs Boson Goose Game.
Test-beam tales: Days 6 and 7
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Monday, 22 August
8am: Yet another early morning after a late night. I am getting too old for this (some would disagree with the “getting”). The shifters this morning are the same as those from yesterday morning, who were unfortunate in that there was no beam throughout their shift. They were more fortunate today as the beam was on. But our data acquisition system was not in such good shape. In the middle of the night the system had stopped working. A Windows-based laptop that controls part of the system seemed to have spontaneously rebooted itself!
Test-beam tales: Days 4 and 5
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Saturday, 20 August
8am: Another early start – meeting the two physicists and taxiing them to the beam area to be on shift for the next eight hours. Both are at the same institute – NCU Taiwan – but, as is often the case in our field, only one is from Taiwan – the other is from India.
Test-beam tales: Days 2 and 3
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Thursday, 18 August
9am: We reconvened at the test-beam area. First thing on the agenda was a second visit from the safety service, who wanted to see if we could improve on the grounding of our system – to protect people from any possible chance of electrocution. The risk was already extremely low (and, in any case, people are not permitted near the equipment when it is running) but we still managed to improve things a bit.
Test-beam tales: Day 1
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Wednesday, 17 August
5am: I drove my wife and kids to Geneva airport. They are leaving for ten days in the sun, in the knowledge that even if they were not going away, they would see precious little of me for the next week: it is test-beam time at CERN!
Addressing the Asymmetry Between Questions and Answers
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This is a guest post by Sara Kamboj the American School of Paris, who spent a week in July 2015 interviewing scientists at CERN for a film project at school.
On Seagull Soup and Coffee Deficiency: Night Shift at CMS
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This is a guest post by Anna Wilson and Eleanor Harris, who spent a week interning with CMS in April 2015.
More than half a year, a school trip to CERN, and a round of 13TeV collisions later, the week-long internship we completed at CMS over Easter is still the most awe-inspiring experience of our lives so far.
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