dragondodo.bsky.social
Particle physicist by day, recreational mathematician and dragonologist by night. (She/her). I work on muon g-2 at the University of Liverpool and Fermilab!
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Sun! 😮
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Are you here or watching on stream?!
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This is Persia, she is a cloud in a box
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Given the usual description is something like ‘half horse half man’, they’ve not specified anything about the horse half… (and now you’ve got the song stuck in my head, thanks 🤣)
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They have incredible merch (and fudge too to be fair…)
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He has a beautiful singing voice!
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I got whammed an hour ago by my own siblings!!! So I feel your outrage as it mirrors my own
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Bbbbbbboing!!!
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EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN HAS BEEN WORTH IT JUST FOR THIS
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WITH THE ORIGINAL DIRECTOR TOO… NEW MUSIC?? MORE STORY!! AAAAAAAAAAAA
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OH!!!! OHHHHHHH!!!!!
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‘Feed me tuna or rocks fall everyone dies’
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ZEKE’S COFFEE?!
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Zeke! Put it down!
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*hrrrrr!*
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Indeed! The trackers were built in a clean room because they needed to operate well inside the vacuum where the muons live.
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Thread may be of interest to the #science 🧪 feed… (testing if this works!)
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He is! He’s done all kinds of jobs, from chief cable inspector to secondary run coordinator.
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Thank you!
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Hello, I’d love to be added, my orcid is orcid.org/0000-0001-87...
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I use these 'tracks' to look for a very small wiggle in the up-down direction of the positrons emitted when our muons decay. The Standard Model, which is our 'best' theory of particle physics at the moment, predicts we shouldn't see anything, so if we do, that would be very exciting...
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These detectors are called straw trackers, and you'll find them in all kinds of experiments - the little shiny silver tubes you can see give us a signal when a particle passes through them, so by looking at where all the signals are and playing join-the-dots, we can reconstruct the path it took!
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And here's a (very fast) virtual tour of the experiment I gave on the Fermilab socials: www.instagram.com/p/CvvP2DYtjr...
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I and some of my colleagues wrote about our newest result here, if you're interested in knowing more about g-2: theconversation.com/is-there-new...