So I'm back in Geneva, and the exciting news is... NOTHING! We're still broken, and will be even later than previously seen--beam in September, collisions in (hopefully) October or November, and Dr. m0nster by June 2010. We'll see.
Drama in the HEP world: Fermilab is throwing down and saying "we'll find the Higgs first, and screw you, you trance-addicted Euro-trash". Well, what they *actually* said was far more diplomatic and technical, but that's the gist of it. They actually very well might find the Higgs first, but that's not the real reason we built the LHC--supersymmetry awaits (maybe)!
My day-to-day life has been relatively mundane--besides a trip to Amsterdam, I've been working on analysis code to compute the readout timing peak per chamber and comparing that across all chambers to make sure the timing calibration is sane. So much of my time has been sitting here surfing the web and giving myself a refresher course on SUSY while I wait for my code to finish running. Whee. On the plus side, the detector shifts I *was* going to be doing have been moved back almost 2 months, so my colleague Phil will have to show up to work at 7:00 AM rather than me. (36,831)
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