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I was always curious how they measured these things. Does anyone have a good reference that doesn't involve years of particle physics study?
by akg 15y ago
I was always curious how they measured these things. Does anyone have a good reference that doesn't involve years of particle physics study?
- bmuon 15y agoIt's a long way down the rabbit hole. There's a series of steps for measuring in a particle accelerator and each itself is a big area of knowledge: - Detectors - Hardware triggers - Software triggers - Data storage - Statistical analysis I guess Wikipedia can give you an idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment A common statistical method used in particle physics is the Monte Carlo method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method