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The site is currently in the middle of a significant overhaul and as such only the main framework is fully implemented. A number of pages/sections are expected to change in the coming weeks.
Recent News
Feb 2010
Messing about with HTML5 and fractals: mandelbrot set and julia set.
Some DaVinci code added for local productions, splitting a dst file, etc..
March 2009
Advert for a new flatmate created: link.
Feb 2009
Small guide and description of problems encountered when trying to build LHCb software against non-supported versions of ROOT and RooFit added here. Thanks go to Geraldine Conti for taking up most of my week. ;)
If anyone knows why the gmake hangs but still seems to build everything fine when the hanging process is killed, then please mail me with the answer because everyone I know is stumped.
Dec 2008
There are recent additions to the DIRAC research pages and the feynMP LaTeX pages. There are also a bevy of new snowboarding pics on my flickr page.
Nov 2008
Production shifter guide in html can be found here.
Oct 2008
TP3 section under-development and is available here.
Older Updates
An interesting paper by the UT Fitter group has recently been made public. It relates to a combined measurement of a_fs in the Bs system and claims a > 3 sigma deviation from the SM value.
From what I understand (skim reading the paper), this gives an upper bound on a_fs of 0.0003 at 95% confidence level with a central value of -0.003. This is the same magnitude as the value assumed in our note (0.005). Our studies show that a resolution of 0.0022 can be achieved using the number of Bs->DsMuNu decays expected in 2 inverse fb which is rather similar to their quoted resolution of 0.0021.
One to watch I imagine.