Re: value of shift???

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Hiro,

It sounds like you are working on your thesis background.  EXCELLENT.

Anyway you must have missed Fermi's Golden Rule: " Don't beat on those who
put Gold in your pocket."

And,  the people I knew who worked on ballon flights in the 80's did take
shifts etc.

Must have something to do with electronics or the supply of gold.

dana

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hironori Ito" <hito@students.phsx.ukans.edu>
To: <brahms-l@bnl.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: value of shift???


> Hello.  I need to take a one centence from the previous
> mail.  That is "No shift=No data".  After reading the old papers and
> talking to Challis, the cosmic rays emulation experiment by
> balloon during 50s and 60s did not require any shifts at all.  They
> just built the detectors and sent them to somewhere in Colorado, where
> people mounted the detectors in the balloon and let it go.  (I guess they
> estimated (or hoped) the landing location.)  After landing (somewhere in
> Texas) they (not physicists) collected the detectors and sent them back to
> the physicists for analysis.  Therefore, it was "Data w/o Shift".
>
> Ok, since I can hear the complaints from the senior people who do
> a lot of administrative work, I will add one more factor by age.  Assuming
> the olddest and youngest ages in our group are 75 and 25, here is the
> formula, (age-25)*(beam shift weeks/2)/25.  Therefore,  if you are age 75
> and 20 weeks of Au runs, you get (75-25)*(20/2)/25=20 shifs, which is
> reasonable.  (Ok, I am just having a fun!!!)
>
> Hiro
>
> Note:  While researching the old paper for high energy nuclear
> collisions, I found the papers by Enrico Fermi in 1950 and 1951.  There,
> he layed out many of the basic ideas for the current RHIC physics without
> quark and gluon Mambo-Jumbo. (He seems to be the first one ahead of
> Landau.)   (Of cause, he got the wrong conclusion, but that is not really
> important.)  After 50+ years, we are still doing what he proposed.  I
> would say he was very sharp. Wow!!!
>
>

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