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beamjockey

And Getting Smaller by the Minute

Jun 24, 2005 10:33

Both collider experiments at Fermilab have officially hit an integrated luminosity of one inverse femtobarn. Champagne at 3:30. Whoopee ( Read more... )

physics, particle, luminosity, femtobarns, fermilab, accelerators

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wcg June 24 2005, 16:21:16 UTC

What is integrated luminosity? And why is it being expressed in inverse barns? Is it power per unit area?

When I think of integrated luminosity I think of galaxies, but I know we do our physics on different scales.

beamjockey June 24 2005, 16:44:18 UTC

Luminosity in this sense has nothing to do with the brightness of stars and galaxies ( ... )

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wcg June 24 2005, 17:31:08 UTC

Oooohhhh! Does this mean we can do Einstein tensor notation? Let's see...

Gij

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kaseido June 30 2005, 21:13:34 UTC

discovered you from your post on antimeme's autopost... or somesuch.

Fascinating!