Sorry again; I sort of disappeared there. Between working, packing, and generally tying up loose ends, life has been pretty hectic lately. It looks like I’ll be able to keep working on the dark matter detection project once I go back to Lehigh, running simulations and doing analysis work and whatnot, and I’m pretty excited about that. Coming back to the lab has also been discussed, which is pretty awesome.
As far as work goes, I haven’t a whole lot to report. I’ve been spending a good deal of my time figuring out issues of how I’ll keep working once I’m home… lots of paperwork. I’ve also been trying to finish up some of the sub-projects and simulations I have running, or at least package things so they’re managable when I get home. I think I have everything ready to go at this point so I can pick up where I left off with computer work, and those I work for can continue my experimental stuff.
Outside of work, I went on a nice, long final bike ride and went climbing at the Y for one last time. Now, I’m pretty well occupied by packing and “checking out” of the Lab. I finally received the form today that I need to fill out in order to present my talk in public and post my abstract (paper comes later), so hopefully that will just be a matter of days…
I’ll try to post again on Friday afternoon, then I’ll be away for a few days while in transit. Thanks for reading!
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Kate
// Aug 11, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I don’t know if you’re still writing and answering questions, but in the case that you are, I have one. Are positrons the only anti-matter particles that we know of? Or am I just way off?
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lanlandy
// Aug 12, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Kate, every particle in the standard model has an antiparticle, and we have observed (at least almost) all of them. The weird thing is that the particles that we see every day are all normal matter (we usually make antimatter in accelerators), which prompts questions over why this normal matter is preferred over its twin, antimatter. It seems neither one should be preferred; there should be equal quantities of both. Or, if that were the case, perhaps it all should have annihilated and there should be no matter at all. This is a pretty big unsolved question in science, known as “baryon asymmetry.” But yes, there’s all types of animatter.
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chs
// Aug 15, 2007 at 4:59 am
Can you tell us what the status of the blog is during the coming school year? Are you avilable to answer questions about your research or what its like to try to use stuff from school in a real world science setting?
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