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Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:40 pm
by LarryS
Does anyone know the buckets involved with the 12b_8_8_8? I have found information on 13b_8_8_8 but not the 12b.

Thanks

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:36 pm
by LarryS
Found the bucket numbers on the e-log; hope I did not put anyone to any trouble

Thanks

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:38 pm
by terryburton
Hi,

The filling schemes are detailed here:

http://lpc.web.cern.ch/lpc/fillingschemes.htm


HTH,

Tez

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:04 am
by LarryS
Thanks, however I had found that site a day or so ago and the 12b was not there; it has been added since I last visited the site.

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:27 am
by tomey36
does anyone know if the events in the ATLAS live display, are minimun bias events or the ones that pass though the high level triggers.

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:28 pm
by PhilG
Today's run was the best yet with about 15 hours of stable beams and luminosities above 1.0 for most of the run. No sign if the sharp losses seen on previous runs. integrated luminosity was about 50 inverse nanobarns taking accumulated total to around 200 inverse nanobarns. LHC is starting to behave itself. Run was finally ended by an electrical network glitch.

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:19 pm
by CharmQuark
i like this :thumbup:

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:30 pm
by ikarus177
They are currently hunting the Hump by switching off the "GSM" in the tunnel.
I wonder if this is the same GSM that we use for wireless communication?

ikarus177

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:33 pm
by MpVpRb
I'm confused...

The last post said...
taking accumulated total to around 200 inverse nanobarns
But I read an article that said...
The goal in the next year is to get to one inverse femtobarn
Femto is smaller than nano.

What are the rules for calculating with inverse xxbarns?

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:46 pm
by DCWhitworth
MpVpRb wrote:I'm confused...

The last post said...
taking accumulated total to around 200 inverse nanobarns
But I read an article that said...
The goal in the next year is to get to one inverse femtobarn
Femto is smaller than nano.

What are the rules for calculating with inverse xxbarns?
I think the key word here is 'inverse', why they seem to do this backwards I'm not sure, some scientific reason no doubt, but personally I think a Gigabarn sounds better :)

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:50 pm
by PhilG
femtobarn is smaller than nanobarn, so inverse femtobarn is bigger than inverse nanobarn. It is terminology designed to confuse. They should just call an inverse barn a narb so that they can talk about Meganarbs, Giganarbs , Teranarbs etc.

So now they have about 240 Giganarbs. They are aiming for 100 Teranarbs this year and a Petanarb by the end of 2012. That make more sense?

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:24 pm
by DCWhitworth
PhilG wrote:femtobarn is smaller than nanobarn, so inverse femtobarn is bigger than inverse nanobarn. It is terminology designed to confuse. They should just call an inverse barn a narb so that they can talk about Meganarbs, Giganarbs , Teranarbs etc.

So now they have about 240 Giganarbs. They are aiming for 100 Teranarbs this year and a Petanarb by the end of 2012. That make more sense?
Yes but isn't the aim to produce one inverse femtobarn at 14 TeV centre of mass ? Since the machine is operating at only 7 TeV presumably this won't be adding to this total.

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:37 pm
by Kasuha
MpVpRb wrote:
The goal in the next year is to get to one inverse femtobarn
Femto is smaller than nano.

What are the rules for calculating with inverse xxbarns?
Let's make an example in better understandable scales (but as a result, waaaay out of the real scale). Imagine the beam cross-section is one square meter. So far they got 10 collisions per square decimeter (10 inverse dm2s), which means one thousand collisions total. They aim for one collision per square milimeter (1 inverse mm2), which is smaller number and smaller area but in fact it means much more - one million of collisions total.

It's similar with nano- and femtobarns as they are also units of beam cross-section area. They are using these tiny area units to illustrate how well the target (proton in opposite direction) has been probed. Inverse femtobarn is way smaller than proton cross-section so it gives good chance that all possible scattering angles have been sufficiently probed.

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:24 pm
by PhilG
DCWhitworth wrote:Yes but isn't the aim to produce one inverse femtobarn at 14 TeV centre of mass ? Since the machine is operating at only 7 TeV presumably this won't be adding to this total.
The rough plan is one inverse femtobarn at 7TeV by end of 2011 and 60 inverse femtobarn at 14Tev by end of 2016.
See https://indico.desy.de/getFile.py/acces ... onfId=1964

Re: Current Events Discussion

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:16 pm
by MpVpRb
So...I'm still confused about inverse xxbarns.

If smaller numbers mean more data, why do the numbers increase over time on these plots?

http://lpc.web.cern.ch/lpc/lumiplots.htm