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by pixelmasseuse
Sat May 22, 2010 3:30 am
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607663

Re: Current Events Discussion

Nice indeed... lots of info to digest. I like the delivered luminosity vs. fill # graph on p. 14.
by pixelmasseuse
Tue May 04, 2010 1:36 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 27
Views: 36136

Re: Music

yeah, I saw the lhcsound site... what I've been doing is similar to what they call "sweeping the detector" - at least in how I read data from the ATLAS image.
by pixelmasseuse
Mon May 03, 2010 12:21 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 27
Views: 36136

Re: Music

thanks, CQ! more coming soon...
by pixelmasseuse
Mon May 03, 2010 12:14 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 27
Views: 36136

Re: Music

more ATLAS sonifications: oscillator + filtered noise, remixed with processing: atlas3f-mix1: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=95808 oscillator + filtered noise + FM synthesis, remixed with processing: atlas3q-1mix: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=95823 I've also u...
by pixelmasseuse
Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:40 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 27
Views: 36136

Re: Music

I've been working on sonification of the atlas live display images. Here's a preliminary clip:

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=95521

and going more in a glitch-hop direction:
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=95522
by pixelmasseuse
Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:56 pm
Forum: Controversial topics
Topic: Chelle goes on ...
Replies: 87
Views: 114543

Re: Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

Mailo wrote:And for every possible state of little piggy, there's a BBQ grill associated with it. See, I can argue on your level :laughing-rolling:
Don't be so quick to discount the possibility of GP (Grill-Piggy) symmetry violations!
by pixelmasseuse
Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:21 pm
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: A day at the LHC (movie)
Replies: 8
Views: 12035

Re: A day at the LHC (movie)

nice... I like the vaguely British accent of the voice
by pixelmasseuse
Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:01 pm
Forum: Science
Topic: Luminance, luminosity, squeezing explained in English
Replies: 14
Views: 26773

Re: Luminance, luminosity, squeezing explained in English

this article http://pdg2.lbl.gov/atlasblog/?p=339 explains cross-section as a probability that a sub-atomic event will occur: What the LHC has provided so far [article written April 5, 2010] … is on the order of hundred inverse micro-barns. This means that processes charcterized by production cross-...
by pixelmasseuse
Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:34 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 27
Views: 36136

Re: Music

ah, there's no link to the sound file...

EDIT: aha! I'm not set up to hear MIDI playback directly from a web site at the moment...
by pixelmasseuse
Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:17 am
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: Current Events Discussion
Replies: 512
Views: 607663

Re: Current Events Discussion

ehh, I was wondering about that... perhaps they want 1 bucket per beam to go through all the motions, but not collide...
by pixelmasseuse
Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:01 pm
Forum: LHCb
Topic: El Reg LHCb story
Replies: 11
Views: 32958

Re: El Reg LHCb story

1993 article on B+ production in LEP:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/257181/files/P00019894.pdf

Also, the recent LHCb article refers to "known B+ mass of 5.32 GeV," meaning the observed mass from prior experiments.
by pixelmasseuse
Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:56 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 27
Views: 36136

Re: Music

sonification - the technique of making audible sound from data, whether for the purpose of creating an auditory display or music. I've been thinking of trying this with accelerator data myself...
by pixelmasseuse
Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:07 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: unpronouncable volcano
Replies: 34
Views: 46524

Re: unpronouncable volcano

for those who would like to actually pronounce the name of the island-mountain-glacier volcano: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2257 there are several clips of native speakers - flash embeds at the top, and if you scroll down a bit, links to the mp3 files. Lots of variations on IPA transcrip...
by pixelmasseuse
Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:32 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Stable Beams
Replies: 7
Views: 13763

Re: Stable Beams

can I get a lumi scan on that? :character-stan:
by pixelmasseuse
Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:43 am
Forum: The Accelerator
Topic: 7E10 single injections
Replies: 21
Views: 26587

Re: 7E10 single injections

looks like they are alternating between physics fills (with squeeze studies) and high-intensity injection/dump studies. this physics fill intensities are edging up... the present fill is ~ 3E10. also, it looks like there is a lot of intensity loss in the squeeze studies, especially when they get dow...