1st Edition
You Have 16 Hours Six Months in the Life of a Detector Physicist
Chapter 1 OCTOBER - The Evening Before
Chapter 2 What is a Testbeam?
Chapter 3 APRIL - Six Months Earlier
Chapter 4 What is an SEU (and why do we care)?
Chapter 5 JUNE - Four Months Earlier
Chapter 6 What is the ATLAS Detector?
Chapter 7 AUGUST - Two Months and One Week Earlier
Chapter 8 How to Spot an SEU
Chapter 9 AUGUST - Two Months Earlier
Chapter 10 The Most Boring Measurement in the World
Chapter 11 SEPTEMBER - One Month Earlier
Chapter 12 How To Organise Hundreds of Team Members
Chapter 13 OCTOBER - Two Weeks Earlier
Chapter 14 Travel in the Time of Covid-19
Chapter 15 OCTOBER - One Week Earlier
Chapter 16 What Happened in the Meantime
Chapter 17 OCTOBER 15th - The Day Before
Chapter 18 Good Luck Getting Anywhere!
Chapter 19 OCTOBER 16th - The Day Of
Chapter 20 OCTOBER 17th - Aftermath
Biography
The author of this book followed a predictable path through university: Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, PhD in physics, first postdoctoral fellowship and second postdoctoral fellowship. The second fellowship was followed by a permanent position in physics research at Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF National Laboratory, for which the author has been extremely lucky to have the required good luck and support. The author has the unfortunate tendency to seek out interesting-sounding challenges, thereby ending up in situations like a survival training in the rainforest, a whisky (making) school in Campbelltown (Scotland), a bake-off challenge with a colleague from the other side of the planet, an alpaca farming class, the organization of more measurements in proton, electron and X-ray beams than most of the author's colleagues, and of course, writing this book.
