Introduceyourself: Particle Physicist at the Compact Muon Solenoid at CERN

in #steemstem7 years ago (edited)

I'm an experimental particle physicist working at the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC.
selfie with detector
(this is the experiment I work on. No white coats, but safety helmets!)

As this is quite an exciting job that people are interested in, I am rather active on social media (particularly twitter). Recently I gave a tour to a group of #steemSTEM enthousiasts; and guess what? Now I am on steem! (thanks @lemouth and #steemSTEM team!)

What you can expect from my account is posts on hot topics in particle physics, particularly when it is in the media. I also have the possibility to take high tech pictures with explanations of what is happening, in my job I regularly get to visit all sorts of not frequently accessible high tech sites.

selfie at fusion reactor
(selfie at test fusion tokamak JET)

I also attend many conferences and places where I am invited to teach, some more exotic than other, locationwise. It includes regular and fast costume changes
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(visiting a particle physics detector lab at University of Oxford to look at a robot that I developed as a MSc student, only to show up at a fancy dinner 30 minutes later)

And then I regularly go to (particle) physics experiments, and I take visitor groups down 100 meter underground to our see our beautiful CMS detector.

And of course: #Shoes! And probably some food porn

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(this is a dessert that I had at an excellent two-michelin star restaurant recently)

Let's see how it goes, I like variation as I am someone who really needs very very regular change. Also for the shoes :)

ps: suggestions on how to do better image formatting on the steem flavour of markdown are exceptionally welcome!

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You joined the group! Now stay with us or you're doing it wrong!

It's good seeing you here, I was waiting since our visit for that :) Hope you have a great time here, steemSTEM is totally supporting you!

Thanks! I am trying to figure out what to write some posts about, if you have any suggestions just let me know :)

Gosh, you could write about a lot of things. Your experiences working for CERN, what it was like designing the CMS detector, your work promoting women in particle physics. You're a rock star, looking forward to hearing what you have to say :)

Talk about particle physics! People like that :)

And cables ! Cables are cool.

I like cables too!

Agreed, it's awesome to read about subjects the writer is passionate/knowledgeable about! I would love to learn more about your experiences at CERN!

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Wether or not all your friends play rock paper scissors lizard spock ?😁

You could do a broad overview of the LHC - that would be pretty cool. I read some popular science articles saying that the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC had made some of the first accurate mass measurements of the W Boson. That would be interesting to elaborate on if you have any inside knowledge. Or you could just talk about the W Boson. Or just Bosons. Anyways - welcome!

I hope you will benefit from this wonderful site. We really need some scientists to take advantage of it. Welcome to my name and the rest of everyone's name

Welcome to STEEM, I'm new here too. I look forward to following you :)
Warm Greetings, Catherine.

ps: looking at your profile, I now realise what an honour it was to see your face :)

The face is a very rare sight !

Haha :D

And I will let you know if I think of something that might be interesting.
Tbh, you could probably put everything you told us into several posts. 1k words is usually a good length (maximum) and you won't be able to fit everything in there.

I often aim for 1200, but that's pushing it a little.

Nice to meet you. It's soo cool !!!
Welcome to this great family.
I hope you're going to make a lot of success in this great community.
I wish you all the best !!!

Cant believe even a scientist from CERN can be found here! I cant imagine how cool it is. I wonder if you @freyablekman have ever operated Grid, that super computer

Yes I use the grid on a regular basis and will write a post about it eventually

Well said

That's really thoughtful of y'all ☺

Glad you are here :) That tour was one of the best experiences of my life!

Wow, that is big praise! Thanks, I'm delighted to hear that!

Hello friend, you support me with a vote, greetings, blessings

Hi steemin it's very nice and honey . I hope you spent a good time here .. This a better place to enjoy your time . your introduction is good and you look best . plz upvoting and comment me. it's great for us!

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Thanks, Honey :)

A warm welcome to Steemit Freya, you will find that the community you just set your foot into is a dynamic and vibrant one.

There is a lot of particle physics going on and around on our platform, with different styles, ideas and approaches.

I look forward to reading yours!

Hi, friend. It's amazing to have you here with us. Do explore and have fun. @greatness96 says WELCOME TO STEEMIT

It is great to have a top physicist (a private joke that no one may understand ;) ) here on board! Glad that you finally posted an introduction!

PS: I am in my train :)

Excellent, see you soon! And let me know if you don’t get those data cards and I will wield my bossy powers :-)

We have them. Am now reimplementing the other 4top analysis in MA5. Let's see how good we are in reproducing your results :)

Yeah should be easy, the lepton analysis mostly uses the same techniques as the standard supersymmetry search in the same final state (it is essentially a retune) so my advice would be to start from the gluino-mediated stop searches and just change the few selection cuts that are difficult:-)

I usually start from scratch. I am so used to the code this is way faster than copy pasting + modifying.

I need one hour, mostly. to code an analysis (and just because I like writing a lot of comments :p), but I don't have that hour easily at the moment. Maybe calmly from a coffee place in Lawrence next week (I still a pile of more important stuff to tackle, remember ;) )

Welcome to the community! Good luck! Followed!

Weee I'm so glad to see you here ! The visit of the CMS was amazing I loved it, and apart from the actual beast, you contributed greatly to the experience being able to answer basically any questions that we had :)

Thanks again for the visit and welcome !

As for the formatting, put the image inside of <center> tags to center it or inside

<div class="pull-right">to put it on the right and <div class="pull-left">to pull it to the left.

So essentially HTML instead of the markdown language? Thanks, I will try that

Most of the "basic" html works yes, bold tables, titles etc. But don't expect too much out of it.

sorry it thought this was an image!
Use center tags to center an image as well and use the box brackets to place attribute data. You can also use HTML markup.

To center an image


! [attribute data]( http;//someimage </center|>

To resize an image


resize some image

So I cannot upload my image to steemit and then resize it on the fly in markdown? disappointing :( :(

Wow. What a job

Welcome to Steemit @freyablekman ! :)

I hope you people at CERN don't accidentally create a black hole or something that wipes us all out in two seconds. I know, I probably sound ignorant, I'm not a physicist...

welcome to steemit