Over the past couple of weeks, I've worked really hard trying to soak up as much information as I can and make the most out of this experience. It has been said that CERN was build next to the mountains so that it's physicists could unwind there. In order to test this, I went with some friends to the Albert 1er hut above Chamonix over the weekend. Here are some pictures from our adventure:
The LHC began collisions on the 23rd of May and I was in the ATLAS control room when they started. This is really exciting because the LHC has not collided protons for several months during an upgrade period. Hopefully with an upgraded machine we will be able to find hints at new physics!
I built a jet clustering algorithm based on the anti-kt model used in professional analyses here at CERN. Mine is, of course, more rudimentary but was still quite fun to make. The histogram attached here shows the distribution of the algorithm's results for number of jets. The input was 10,000 events from the MC jet program I built earlier with two jets sent in opposite directions. The histogram clearly shows a peak at 2, which implies that the algorithm is working.
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