QN Postings

They announced it this past Friday at Fermilab. A press release went out today. And, at the Boston QuarkNet meeting tonight, mentors Darien Wood and Ela Barberis explained what it meant.


"It" is the first evidence of production of single top quarks (not top-antitop pairs) by D-Zero at Fermilab. This means that they have likely observed top quarks produced by weak interactions for the first time ever. (The other events recorded have all been due to the strong force.) This is big in itself and can get bigger because it helps clear the way to possible discovery of Higgs events.

How cool is this? It's swimming in a helium lake.

Links:

Fermilab press release

D-Zero

Below are some photos Tom took in Kyoto. They speak for themselves...

After Nagoya, Tom and Marge and I came to Taipei, Taiwan to do the cosmic ray detector workshop at Soochow University. Our host, Dr. Hsiao, could not have been nicer or more helpful. The team that worked on detectors and the e-Lab were just great. I can't say enough about how interested everyone has been and how nice they are. Of course, here are some pictures...


The last image is of dinner we had at a "dumpling" restaurant -- how cool is that? --with Dr. W.Y. Pauchy Hwang. Dr. Hwang is the PI of the cosmology/astroparticle group at National Taiwan University. Dr. Hwang was fun to talk with and was showed real interest in the workshop.

Thank you to all our friends in Taiwan! All in all, a great week.


Ken