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One of the first things instructors should do whenever a new type of bus arrives on site is to locate its pivot point.
Let's simplify the definition of 'pivot point.' The pivot point is the specific location on a bus that an object must align with before the operator attempts to overtake that object, whether it is a vehicle, sign, etc. Attempting to overtake the object — fixed, pedestrian, double parked vehicle — before that object reaches the pivot point locations mentioned below by bus model, will result in making contact with that object. Let's look at the various pivot point locations on some buses.
Would someone like to volunteer the location of the pivot point on a 30ft. and 35ft. model bus?
Getting Permission
Let's put this to use. A very powerful lesson of the do's and don'ts of overtaking fixed objects and eliminating curb strikes or mounting curbs while turning should be demonstrated on the first day your students begin training on the training bus. Along with learning mirror setup/utilization, air brake familiarity, interior and exterior pre-trip inspection, getting permission — getting the object to align with the pivot point of his or her bus — should be a new phrase that students learn. Once this is accomplished, students will get into the habit of seeking permission before attempting to move around fixed objects.
Those of you with a driver training simulator can perform this all-important exercise during a serpentine course conducted around pillar columns, which appear in some virtual driving worlds. Pillars support the overhead elevated train tracks in cities like New York and Chicago, just to name a few, and provide an ideal location to practice this critical movement. If you don't have this type of training set up on your bus simulator, contact your simulator provider.
Go to your training area and bring a rubber cone. Place it next to the pivot point — depending on the bus models above. Let's use the 40-foot bus, for example, by placing the cone as close as you like alongside the center of the right rear outside tire — the left rear outside tire can be used for a left-side demonstration. Have your students stand by the right rear corner of the bus near the right rear taillight looking down the right side of the bus. They should have a good view of the closeness of the cone to the right outside tire. With you in the operator's seat, take the wheel and lock the steering wheel to the right then slowly begin to move. What your students will see is that from the point where you placed the cone and back, this area will move around the cone with no contact.
Give the cone a name.
From that point forward in your training, consider any object they attempt to overtake a person. If they feel they are overtaking a person, it keeps them a little more focused on the task at hand. Once you have established your point of not having contact as long as you get the object to the pivot point, move the cone forward a few feet toward the rear doors. Get back in the bus and once again lock the steering wheel to the right. With the students watching, attempt to move right again. Before moving slowly, lock the wheel right. This time the bus will make contact with the object. This comes in handy when working with shifters/drillers in tight depot areas. You will be surprised how much damage can occur by moving buses around a depot during the late hours. Damage appears during a morning pull-out pre-trip that was not present on the post-trip during the previous evening's pull-in.
Allow each student/operator to move around the cone/simulated pillars moving left and right using the 'getting permission' theory. Walk them through one or two sets of cones then allow them to do it on their own, unassisted. It's important they demonstrate that they comprehend the reason behind getting permission. Remember, they must learn to look right or left before moving right or left!
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Physical security surveillance is one of the most vital facets of a transit system's security plan. In the past, recording was primarily done by analog video cameras, but those systems are now updated with IP cameras that have features like greater data storage and ultra HD imaging. Moreover, today's surveillance has moved beyond video to audio monitoring. By integrating audio and video, security directors have access to more evidence for reported incidents and accident investigations. Audio also provides accountability for employees, capturing if a train engineer was talking on his cell phone on duty or if a train ticket examiner was providing poor customer service.
I recently had the opportunity to view a video that captured what could have been a fatal pedestrian knockdown if contact had occurred. A bus overtaking another bus positioned in the bus stop zone occurs routinely and usually without incident, but if not performed correctly, this type of situation can end with catastrophic results.
Recent national incidents have put increased attention on safe commuting and what passengers can do to protect themselves during a transit emergency. "The most important tip anyone can follow is to wait for the instructions of the crew," said Scott Sauer, chief system safety officer for SEPTA. "Crews know the equipment best and have been trained to safely remove passengers from vehicles should the situation warrant evacuation...
Are you getting frustrated because — in spite of what you're doing — collisions are not dropping at your agency? With just a few tweaks, you can make a difference. If you are a chief training officer, training director, instructor or equivalent at your agency, then this message is for you.
I may be all alone on this one, but I discovered that my kids (who were not allowed to play "shooter" video games) developed a distinct style of driving (and a lot of unsafe habits) while playing their video driving games as pre-teens and young teenagers. In fact, I wound up spending a great deal of my time trying to undo these habits and deep set tendencies while my boys still had their learner's permits.
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The phone is sleek and attractive
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The reception is very poor. Also the phone 'hangs' although the LED keeps on blinking.
My SIM card connection from HUTCH(India) also got corrupted. I am yet to find out the real cause of this corruption problem i.e. Mobile phone or the SIM card.
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Overall, this phone is not worth buying as the basic requirement of a mobile phone is not met. We are faced with problems like poor reception, Frequent hanging, corruption of SIM cards.
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Starting from seed is not easy!
Just take a container filled with potting mix, put some seeds in, and let it sit on the window sill is all I thought I needed to do to start healthy plants for the season. Boy, was I wrong!! I see why you pepper growers use seed mats, heaters, indoor lighting!! My jalapeno seeds took 19 days to sprout and only a few like 7 are up, and planted like 20 or more in the one container just to try to start them. I know they are good seeds because they are from burpee and they are jalapeno which I am sure is the most grown pepper ever. I have a south window but not much sun in these winter months here so these seeds are doing not so good. So by the time may-june comes, if my plants are not the same size as the ones I can get a 4 pack of from homedepot then I will just plant mine in the ground and buy some starts to through in containers so I really get the same heavy production I did last year.
These seeds I have leave me with a new test this season. When june comes and the soil is really warm I am going to sow jalapeno seeds right in tilled rows planting them one foot or less spaced due to the fact they will not get big anyway. I want to see if I can get a late summer/fall crop of jalapenos. Think it can be done in 5B?
I would like to hear your thoughts. I will doing it this season so we will see!
In the winter months, window sills can get pretty chilly! The seeds before they come up, don't need any sunlight. Just sit your container somewhere warm. 80-85 degrees is ideal, but you can get by with 70-80.
You only need to worry about the light once they've popped up out of the soil! I'd move the little guys that have came up into their own containers, and the rest I'd move to somewhere warm.
Also, if you have a counter you aren't using or anything, you can hang a fluorescent light over the little guys and they be perfectly fine right now once they start coming up.
This post was edited by ab2008 on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 12:06
Plopping a greenhouse-grown plant in a pot is easy...but starting from seed can, indeed, be a challenge. A Jalapeno seed, however, should germinate in 4 - 7 days or so. They're one of the absolute easiest. If Jal's ain't coming up, you know you've got problems.
I never had a lot of trouble getting seeds to germinate even without a heat mat. It just took a couple days longer at room temps. It is the next month or so after germination that seem to be the most critical. I also found that a South (SW) facing window isn't as good as grow lights. I started a few plants early this year and was growing them in the big picture window. I would move them to the window sill in the morning and put them back on the dining room table in the evening. On sunny days, they got several hours of direct sunlight and indirect light other times through the day. They got quite leggy. I didn't use my grow lights as I didn't want to mess with all the gear for just a few plants. Well, I started my main planting a few days ago and put up the lights. I have had the earlier plants under the lights since and they quit growing up and are now putting out more true leaves. I was kind of surprised at this as I thought the real sun would be better even if it wasn't as long as the lights. So, I learned something already this year.
Thanks everyone for adding.
That could have been it- temp. I did not have them very warm the whole time just room temp.
I know it is odd. My orange habs came up at the same time my jalapenos did. I would have thought the jalapenos would be quiker. Your right though, those green house grown seedlings you can buy are strong and ready to go!
Yea. I will just hope the sun in the spring helps them along a little. Yea those indoor lights sure help. The length they are on gives more growth than the few hours of sun a day. I hope I can get away with just using the window so far. Otherwise I can get started jalapenos again.
I was really not wanting to get any starts this year, but I really see they can be well worth it if you dont have much room or patience to start from seed.
This post was edited by TheMasterGardener1 on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 14:00
I just disassembled the bench light in my shop to get another shelf illuminated for the newly potted children. [No I don't let them smoke; read it again.]
Shirley you can reconfigure your house to make them happier!
Just do it and tell the wife later.
I wouldn't bother sowing in the summer for a fall crop, (unless it is only for an experiment. But, I can tell you, 2 yrs ago when it was in the 100+ range- it was July, I decided to start some seeds mostly so I could maybe gather some seeds in the winter. They sprouted faster than I've ever had seeds sprout before. Only problem was, it was so hot, the plants didn't seem to thrive like they do in the spring).
Once they are in the garden (the ones you have already started) they should take off, plus, the plants you plant in the spring will continue to produce well into the fall - depending on the temps, you don't need new plants for fall.
I'm having a hell of a year this year. Superhots have germinated great, habs so so, but the seedlings look sickly, but some the germination has been horrible, anaheims ~1%, pepperoncinis 0, georgia flames ~1%, 1 Thai dragon, Chocolate cherry 0, golden cayenne 0, purple cayenne 0... the list goes one. ;-( I have no idea what's going on.
I wouldn't bother with the sowing in ground in June. Given the amount of time it takes a plant to reach a reasonable size and bear just a couple fruit, I think you'll be out of time.
Also, I wouldn't expect your plants from seed to look like the ones from Home Depot. Those have been fertilized like nobody's business, which doesn't neccessarily lead to a healthier plant. My transplants tend to be smaller but take off faster, I think because they experience less transplant shock. Anyway, don't give up. There's time yet to try again to get those seeds into seedlings now that you know they need to be warm to start growing.
Until this year all my plants started as pots from Bonnie Plants at Home Depot, Lowes, Wal-Wart etc etc. Very robust healthy plants - no sign of drop-off or imbalance as one would expect from forced growing (over-fert). IMO they do it right.
Not sure that Bonnie Plants is available in Eskimo-land, though.
Yes, they (Bonnies Plants) are up here in Wisconsin at least. I have grown several over the last couple years and all have turned out good. But, the selection is very limited. Cayenne, Jalapeno, Bells is about it. Maybe a Habanero or two. I just purchased one or two a year to augment what I already have growing.
I had covered some orange hab seeds in a zip-lock bag so I dont have to keep watering them over and over, and sure enough now mold is growing... I do not have the patience to start seeds indoor at all.
If I leave seeds/seedlings in the window they get cold, or I could move them from the window back to the shelf in the warm house 180 more times until they go outside.....
Now I see why I never started from seed. I grow for pepper supply, not really so much for the hobby...
Here is a quote from http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/seed/2003044315027348.html
"Check baggies every few days, and remoisten as needed. Even if one doesn't appear to need remoistening, don't let them go over a week without opening them up for some fresh air. "
They take a little care to get going, and you do need to check up on them instead of just tossing them in a bag and coming back in 7-10 days to check.
It's really not difficult at all - put seed starting mix or whatever you prefer in anything even some people use yogurt cups. Moisten (not soak) the soil, put the seed in, cover lightly, and just keep it 70-85 degrees and eventually you'll see things sprout.
Another thing may be a batch of bad seeds. Have you seen any sprout at all? If you need any orange habanero seeds I still have quite a few if you'd like.
Don't give up when you see mold. I'm starting to believe that some seeds need it in order to pop. Twice now I've wait quite a while, past the initial mold and into the time that I thought the things were starting to rot, and the day I open up the bag to throw them out they have little tails. Came up, too.
The batch of anaheims I put down molded within days, then today there were four fuzzy little seeds with tails. (One assumes that they are tails; the alternative doesn't bear much thinking.)
Now I just treat with H2O2 and keep waiting.
Last year the peppers were so frustrating and slow with poor germination. I do recall seeing green mold on the soil surface last year. We usually keep the house about 68 to 70F.
Yesterday I just started my seeds (5 different type of sweet peppers, 5 different types of mild heat peppers). I am trying the "coffee filter in a baggie" method for the first time. Only everything is placed inside a "six pack sized drink cooler" with a 4 watt (?) night light for a heat source. This seems to keep them just a little bit warm. Now it's wait and see time. If this works, maybe next year I'll spring for a real heat mat.
I really want to thank all you pepper guru's for the great posts. Every little bit of info helps. Maybe one of these years I'll get it right.
Wow! That was fast! Probably 2/3 of the seeds I put in baggies with the "night light heater" have germinated. The rest are maybe 1 day or so away. It's been just 4 days. Sweet peppers seemed to be a little quicker than the mild heat ones. I never had any peppers jump to life that fast. They are all in starting soil now.
I just hope they don't have a "dampening off" problem now... But at this rate, I'll still have time for "do overs" if there is a crop failure.
I'm having trouble with this. Guy with the moniker "TheMasterGardener1" can't start seed?
I consider myself to be reasonably proficient at starting seed. Even so, I still manage to get some really bad results from time to time. Two trays of pepper seedlings this year gave maybe 20% germination. The very very obvious problem was phytothora.


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Chaminade Resort & Spa offers romantic Santa Cruz accommodation situated by the ocean.
The Spa at Chaminade is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering Ayurvedic treatments, aromatherapy, body scrubs, body treatments, as well as massages, facials and massage/treatment rooms. This 4-star Santa Cruz resort offers gift shops/newsstands. You will want to pack your swimsuit and towel as this resort features an outdoor pool. There is also a poolside bar and a bar/lounge so guests can sip a refreshing drink by the pool or indoors. Multilingual staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide express check-in and express check-out.
Planning a meeting? This resort has conference rooms, as well as a business center. The reception has a safety deposit box for your valuable items. Other amenities include dry cleaning/laundry, ATM/banking and an elevator (lift).
Bar and grill was horrible. We waited over an hour for food and there was not enou...Venere Guest, USA
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- Room service - limited hour
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- Pets accepted
- Dogs allowed
- Entire property is non-smoking
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- Front desk - 24 hour
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- Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
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- April 2014
- Venere Guest
- Family with young children
Bar and grill was horrible. We waited over an hour for food and there was not enough staff to help people. Kids were crying and hungry. Don't count on them for food. Bathroom was really small, you could barely open the door and you hit the toilet.
- July 2014
- Venere Guest
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Restaurant and in room dining were very disappointing. rooms outdated. Pool too small for such a property.
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Book your spa accommodation at Chaminade Resort & Spa, offering 156 guest rooms with video-game consoles and designer toiletries. Guests can kick back at the end of a busy day and enjoy TVs with premium cable channels and pay movies. Business travelers will have access to desks, complimentary newspapers and phones during their Santa Cruz visit.
A good night's sleep in comfortable beds with premium bedding will have visitors waking up refreshed and well-rested throughout their vacation or business trip. Bathrooms are outfitted with shower/tub combinations, bathrobes and hair dryers. Irons/ironing boards and coffee/tea makers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Additional guest comforts include climate control, air conditioning and safes.
Refrigerators and microwaves can be provided on request.
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Distances from Chaminade Resort & SpaDeLaveaga Golf Course - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi
Mystery Spot - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi
Pasatiempo Golf Course - 3.8 km / 2.4 mi
Capitola Historical Museum - 3.8 km / 2.4 mi
Capitola Mercantile - 4 km / 2.5 mi
Capitola Wharf - 4 km / 2.5 mi
Capitola Beach - 4.1 km / 2.5 mi
Santa Cruz Harbor - 4.2 km / 2.6 mi
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History - 4.4 km / 2.7 mi
Town Clock - 4.5 km / 2.8 mi
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History - 4.5 km / 2.8 mi
Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park - 4.5 km / 2.8 mi
Museum of Art & History - 4.5 km / 2.8 mi
The Hook - 4.6 km / 2.8 mi
The preferred airport for Chaminade Resort & Spa is San Jose, CA (SJC-Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl.) - 41.6 km / 25.8 mi.
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The GSM Association has named its new point man for NFC, Pierre Combelles, vice president for open innovation at France Telecom-Orange group, the GSMA told NFC Times.
Fifty passengers at French regional airport Toulouse-Blagnac will test an application that puts a security pass to access airport facilities on SIM cards in BlackBerry NFC phones.
Dave Wentker, considered the No. 2 man in Visa Inc.'s mobile-payment unit and a former vice chairman of the NFC Forum, has left the payment network after more than 15 years, NFC Times has learned.
Even as the NFC Forum attempts to broaden the reach of its NFC touchpoint symbol, known as the N-Mark, rival marks are surfacing, threatening to present consumers with a fragmented array of NFC icons as the technology rolls out.
With the help of NFC technology, airline passengers will routinely tap their mobile phones to pass through security checkpoints and boarding gates by 2018, predicts major airline industry IT and communications services provider SITA.
Mobile trade group the GSMA today announced that major mobile operators "have voiced their commitment" to launch NFC and called for more standards to ensure interoperability of NFC services.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – A U.S. district court judge has ruled that T-Mobile USA infringed an NFC patent held by Israel-based On Track Innovations.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – France-based Gemalto, which is keen to take the spotlight off its SIM business, projects EMV cards to represent perhaps the largest expected source of revenue growth in the coming year.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – UPDATED: Mobile point-of-sale device supplier Square has acquired payment processing component vendor Kili Technology, the same vendor that purchased NFC accessory vendor DeviceFidelity in November, but Square does not plan to keep DeviceFidelity, a source connected with Square told NFC Times.
NFC Times Exclusive – NFC Times has learned new details about how Samsung intends to make money from its planned payments service, Samsung Pay; as well as the technology architecture the OEM will use and the identity of two unannounced banks, along with a new category of issuer that is planning to participate.
NFC Times Exclusive – The public relations debacle Gemalto faced following revelations last month that U.S. and UK spy agencies had stolen keys from its SIM cards is not the only problem the France-based vendor has had to deal with regarding SIMs.
NFC Times Exclusive – MasterCard Worldwide has named James Anderson group executive for platforms, a key position inside the payment network, which is seeking to secure its role in the ecosystem as mobile payments start to gather steam, NFC Times has learned.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – One of Australia's largest banks, Commonwealth Bank, is launching NFC payments from its mobile-banking app using host-card emulation, having earlier tried embedded secure elements, contactless stickers and iPhone attachments.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Google's recently announced API for NFC payments applications, Android Pay, is expected to support apps using host card emulation, or HCE, but also likely will support storage of keys on hardware.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Apple's new wearable, Apple Watch, will support Apple Pay as well as mobile keys for hotel rooms, the company announced Monday.
BARCELONA, Spain – NFC Times Exclusive (UPDATED): The Galaxy S6 will carry an embedded secure element, mainly to enable nonpayment applications, while supporting NFC payments with host-card emulation and storing payment tokens in a secure area on the processor, an ARM-based TrustZone, a representative of Samsung told NFC Times. The embedded secure element also could be used to store tokens outside of the U.S.
BARCELONA, Spain – NFC Times Exclusive Insight: Samsung Electronics has unveiled its Apple Pay rival, which it calls Samsung Pay, a mobile-payments service that, as expected, supports technology from Samsung's recent acquisition of LoopPay combined with NFC.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Following a lull in attention on host-card emulation with the announcement and launch of Apple Pay in the latter half of last year, the buzz appears to be back on HCE, and among the latest organizations promoting it is MasterCard Worldwide.


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So, you want to go on sabbatical… February 5, 2015Posted by apetrov in Blogroll, Near Physics, Physics, Science.
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Every seven years or so a professor in a US/Canadian University can apply for a sabbatical leave. It's a very nice thing: your University allows you to catch up on your research, learn new techniques, write a book, etc. That is to say, you become a postdoc again. And in many cases questions arise: should I stay at my University or go somewhere else? In many cases yearlong sabbaticals are not funded by the home University, i.e. you have to find additional sources of funding to keep your salary.
I am on a year-long sabbatical this academic year. So I had to find a way to fund my sabbatical (my University only pays 60% of my salary). I spent Fall 2014 semester at Fermilab and am spending Winter 2015 semester at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Here are some helpful resources for those who are looking to fund their sabbatical next year. As you could see from the list, they are slightly tilted towards theoretical physics. Yet, there are many resources that are useful for any profession. Of course your success depends on many factors: whether or not you would like to stay in the US or go abroad, competition, etc.
- General resources:
Guggenheim Foundation
Deadline: September
Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: August
- USA/Canada:
Simons Fellowship
Deadline: September
IAS Princeton (Member/Sabbatical)
Deadline: November
Perimeter Institute:
Visiting Professors
Deadline: November
Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University
Deadline: November
URA Visiting Scholar program
Intensity Frontier Fellowships
Deadline: twice a year
- Europe:
Alexander von Humbuldt:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Humboldt Research Award
Deadline: varies
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships
Deadline: varies
CERN Short Term visitors
Deadline: varies
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (TUM-IAS, Munchen)
Deadline: varies
Some general info that could also be useful can be found here.
I don't pretend to have a complete list, but those sites were useful for me. I did not apply to all of those programs — and rather unfortunately, missed a deadline for the Simons Fellowship. Many University also have separate funds for sabbatical visitors. So if there is a University one wants to visit, it's best to ask.
On a final note, it might be useful to be prepared and figure out, if you get funded, how the money/fellowship will find a way to your University and to you. Also, in many cases "60% of the salary" paid by your University while you are on a sabbatical leave means that you would have to find not only the remaining 40% of your salary, but also fringes that your University would take from your fellowship. So the amount that you'd need to find is more than 40% of your salary. Please don't make a mistake that I made. :-)
Good luck!
Data recall at the LHC? April 1, 2014Posted by apetrov in Uncategorized.
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In a stunning turn of events, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) management announced a recall and review of thousands of results that came from its four main detectors, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE, in the course of the past several years when it learned that the ignition switches used to start the LHC accelerator (see the image) might have been produced by GM.
GM's CEO, A. Ibarra, who is better known in the scientific world for the famous Davidson-Ibarra bound in leptogenesis, will be testifying on the Capitol Hill today. This new revelation will definitely add new questions to already long list of queries to be addressed by the embattled CEO. In particular, the infamous LHC disaster that happened on 10 September 2008, which cost taxpayers over 21Million dollars to fix, and has long suspected been caused by a magnet quench, might have been caused by too much paper accidentally placed on a switch by a graduate student, who was on duty that day.
"We want to know why it took LHC management five years to issue that recall", an unidentified US Government official said in the interview, "We want to know what is being done to correct the problem. From our side, we do everything humanly possible to accommodate US high energy particle physics researchers and help them to avoid such problems in the future. For example, we included a 6.6% cut in US HEP funding in the President's 2015 budget request." He added, "We suspected that something might be going on at the LHC after it was convincingly proven to us at our weekly seminar that the detected Higgs boson is 'simply one Xenon atom of the 1 trillion 167 billion 20 million Xenon atoms which there are in the LHC!'"
This is not the first time accelerators cause physicists to rethink their results and designs. For example, last year Japanese scientists had to overcome the problem of unintended acceleration of positrons at their flagship facility KEK.
At this point, it is not clear how GM's ignition switches problems would affect funding of operations at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA.
And the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to… October 8, 2013Posted by apetrov in Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Uncategorized.
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Today the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to François Englert (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (University of Edinburgh, UK). The official citation is "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider." What did they do almost 50 years ago that warranted their Nobel Prize today? Let's see (for the simple analogy see my previous post from yesterday).
The overriding principle of building a theory of elementary particle interactions is symmetry. A theory must be invariant under a set of space-time symmetries (such as rotations, boosts), as well as under a set of "internal" symmetries, the ones that are specified by the model builder. This set of symmetries restrict how particles interact and also puts constraints on the properties of those particles. In particular, the symmetries of the Standard Model of particle physics require that W and Z bosons (particles that mediate weak interactions) must be massless. Since we know they must be massive, a new mechanism that generates those masses (i.e. breaks the symmetry) must be put in place. Note that a theory with massive W's and Z that are "put in theory by hand" is not consistent (renormalizable).
The appropriate mechanism was known in the beginning of the 1960's. It goes under the name of spontaneous symmetry breaking. In one variant it involves a spin-zero field whose self-interactions are governed by a "Mexican hat"-shaped potential
It is postulated that the theory ends up in vacuum state that "breaks" the original symmetries of the model (like the valley in the picture above). One problem with this idea was that a theorem by G. Goldstone required a presence of a massless spin-zero particle, which was not experimentally observed. It was Robert Brout, François Englert, Peter Higgs, and somewhat later (but independently), by Gerry Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, Tom Kibble who showed a loophole in a version of Goldstone theorem when it is applied to relativistic gauge theories. In the proposed mechanism massless spin-zero particle does not show up, but gets "eaten" by the massless vector bosons giving them a mass. Precisely as needed for the electroweak bosons W and Z to get their masses! A massive particle, the Higgs boson, is a consequence of this (BEH or Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble) mechanism and represents excitation of the Higgs field about its new vacuum state.
It took about 50 years to experimentally confirm the idea by finding the Higgs boson! Tracking the historic timeline, the first paper by Englert and Brout, was sent to Physical Review Letter on 26 June 1964 and published in the issue dated 31 August 1964. Higgs' paper, received by Physical Review Letters on 31 August 1964 (on the same day Englert and Brout's paper was published) and published in the issue dated 19 October 1964. What is interesting is that the original version of the paper by Higgs, submitted to the journal Physics Letters, was rejected (on the grounds that it did not warrant rapid publication). Higgs revised the paper and resubmitted it to Physical Review Letters, where it was published after another revision in which he actually pointed out the possibility of the spin-zero particle — the one that now carries his name. CERN's announcement of Higgs boson discovery came 4 July 2012.
Is this the last Nobel Prize for particle physics? I think not. There are still many unanswered questions — and the answers would warrant Nobel Prizes. Theory of strong interactions (which ARE responsible for masses of all luminous matter in the Universe) is not yet solved analytically, the nature of dark matter is not known, the picture of how the Universe came to have baryon asymmetry is not cleared. Is there new physics beyond what we already know? And if yes, what is it? These are very interesting questions that need answers.
Higgs mechanism for electrical engineers October 7, 2013Posted by apetrov in Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Uncategorized.
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Since the Higgs boson's discovery a little over a year ago at CERN I have been getting a lot of questions from my friends to explain to them "what this Higgs thing does." So I often tried to use the crowd analogy that is ascribed to Prof. David Miller, to describe the Higgs (or Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble) mechanism. Interestingly enough, it did not work well for most of my old school friends, majority of whom happen to pursue careers in engineering. So I thought that perhaps another analogy would be more appropriate. Here it is, please let me know what you think!
Imagine Higgs field as represented by some quantity of slightly magnetized iron filings, i.e. small pieces of iron that look like powder, spread over a table or other surface to represent Higgs field that permeates the Universe. Iron filings are common not only as dirt in metal shops, they are often used in school experiments and other science demonstrations to visualize the magnetic field. It is important for them to be slightly magnetized, as this represents self-interaction of the Higgs field. Here they are pictured in a somewhat cartoonish way:
How can Higgs field generate mass? Moreover, how can one field generate different masses for different types of particles? Let us first make an analogue of fermion mass generation. If we take a small magnet and put it in the filings, the magnet would pick up a bunch of filings, right? How much would it pick up? It depends on the "strength" of that magnet. It could be a little:
…or it could be a lot, depending on what kind of magnet we use — or how strong it is:
If we neglect the masses of our magnets, as we assumed they are small, the mass of the picked up mess with the magnets inside is totally determined by the mass of the picked filings, which in turn is determined by the interaction strength between the magnets and the filings. This is precisely how fermion mass generation works in the Standard Model!
In the Standard Model the massless fermions are coupled to the Higgs field via so-called Yukawa interactions, whose strength is parametrized by a number, the Yukawa coupling constant. For different fermion types (or flavors) the couplings would be numerically different, ranging from one to one part in a million. As a result of interaction with the Higgs field (NOT the boson!) in the form of its vacuum expectation value, all fermions acquire masses (ok, maybe not all — neutrinos could be different). And those masses would depend on the strength of the interaction of fermions with Higgs field, just like in our example with magnets and iron filings!
Now imagine that we simply kicked the table! No magnets. The filings would clamp together to form lumps of filings. Each lump would have a mass, which would only depend on how strong the filings attract to each other (remember that they are slightly magnetized?). If we don't know how strong they are magnetized, we cannot tell how massive each lamp will be, so we would have to measure their masses.
This gives a good analogy of the fact that Higgs boson is an excitation of the Higgs field (the fact that was pointed out by Higgs), and why we cannot predict its mass from the first principles, but need a direct observation at the LHC!
Notice that this picture (so far) does not provide direct analogy to how gauge bosons (W's and Z bosons) receive their masses. W's and Z are also initially massless because of the gauge (internal) symmetries required by the construction of the Standard Model. We did know their mass from earlier CERN and SLAC experiments — and even prior to those, we knew that W's were massive from the fact that weak interactions are of the finite range.
To extend our analogy, let's clean up the mess — literally! Let's throw a bucket of water over the table covered with those iron filings and see what happens. Streams of water would pick up iron filings and flow from the table. Assuming that that water's mass is negligible, the total mass of those water streams (aka dirty water) would be completely determined by the mass of picked iron filings, just like masses of W's and Z are determined by the Higgs field.
This explanation seemed to work better for my engineering friends! What do you think?
Digital bureaucracy August 9, 2013Posted by apetrov in Near Physics.
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This post is about how digital technology of the 21st century "helps" professors (well, at least, this professor) to spend his time doing very important paper submission. Except for the fact that "paper" here refers to the receipts of the expenses that were incurred attending professional conferences. Sorry in advance for the rant that follows.
As an introduction, let me tell you how the procedure used to work at our University. Before going to a conference I had to "encumber" ("reserve") expenses that I planed to incur – filling out one paper form, no receipts. After return from the conference, I would fill out the same form and attach receipts. Our secretary would then type the form up nicely and submit it for reimbursement. It would normally take weeks to get reimbursed, but timewise I'd spend only about 10-15 min doing the whole procedure. Including a nice cover letter to the said secretary summarizing the details and thanking her for her job. 15 min.
Enter digital age! And the age of layoffs. With great fanfare, the university rolled out a new digital system in 2012 — no paper (save the trees!), no secretary involvement (remember the age of layoffs?), maybe even quick turn-around, yahoo!!! Even MIT does not have such a system! Take that, MIT!
Except for now I have to first file the request, complete with all receipts and a conference agenda. No problem, right? So it takes about 20 min to collect all receipts, turn them into pdf files and fill out a bunch of forms electronically. Now, upon return you do the same thing. Except for now you have to
– digitize the receipts that were not digital originally (like highway tolls or gas),enter those receipts separately based on the day when the charge occurred,
– provide proof that you paid for your hotels with your own credit card — not the university one (no problem of getting the pdf file from your credit card company, blacking out your personal details and submitting, attaching it electronically to the request). Also, you'd need to itemize your hotel stay — enter how much it was per day + taxes, etc.
– you have to once again attach the same files with conference agenda.
And, of course, you have to state the business purpose of all of your lunches and dinners (not to die of hunger during the conference, I suppose?) separately for each day of the conference.
Of course, all of this is not a problem. It only takes 30-40 min to do all of this. If you know how. So, if my math is correct (and your expense report is not returned back — so you have to fix your problems and resubmit), the whole procedure takes about 20 min+40 min = 1 hour (60 min – remember 15 min???). Moreover, no secretary involvement, remember? I do it all myself, so the said secretary is fired.
So here is some interesting math. it takes, on average, 4 times longer for me to file the digital reports. I know now why MIT does not have such a system. I'll take that back, MIT…. Questions remain, though. Do faculty have to do all of those reports on their own time or during the time when they are supposed to do research or write grant applications or talk to students? Does the university save money on that (hint: secretary's salary is on average less than that of a faculty)?
So here you have it. Does it kill me to do all those things? Of course not. As it wouldn't kill me to mop the floor in the corridor near my office or go to a supply store to buy chalk to teach my class. Hey, here is an idea for new cost-cutting measures!
Another one bites the dust. Or "Super-B? What Super-B?" November 28, 2012Posted by apetrov in Uncategorized.
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Studies of New Physics require several independent approaches. In the language of experimental physics it means several different experiments. Better yet, several accelerators that have detectors that study similar things, but produce results with different systematic and statistical uncertainties. For a number of years that was how things were: physicists searched for New Physics in high-energy experiments where new particles could be produced directly (think TeVatron or LHC experiments), or low-energy, extremely clean measurements that explored quantum effects of heavy new physics particles. In other words, New Physics could also be searched for indirectly.
As a prominent example of the later approach, detectors BaBar at SLAC (USA) and Belle at KEK (Japan) studied decays of copiously produced B-mesons in hopes to find glimpses of New Physics in quantum loops. These experiments measured many Standard Model-related parameters (in particular, confirming the mechanism of CP-violation in the Standard Model) and discovered many unexpected effects (like new mesons containing charmed quarks, as well as oscillations of charm mesons). But they did not see any effects that could not be explained by the Standard Model. A way to go in this case was to significantly increase luminosity of the machine, thereby allowing for very rare processes to be observed. Two super-flavor factories (those machines are really like factories, churning out millions of B-mesons) were proposed, the Belle-II experiment at KEK and a new Super-B factory at the newly-created Cabibbo Lab in Frascatti, Italy. I have already written about the Cabibbo Lab.
It appears, however, that Italian government decided today that it cannot fund the Super-B flavor factory. Tommaso Dorigo reported it in his blog this morning. Here is more hard data: there is a press release (in Italian) from the INFN that basically tells you that "economic conditions… were incompatible with the costs of the project evaluated." Which is another way of saying that Italian government is not going to fund it. This follows by the news from the PhysicsWorld saying the same thing.
Many physicists have been expressing doubts that the original Super-B plan, which was, in my opinion, very bold, could be executed within the proposed time frame. Yet, physicists pressed on… that is until this morning's announcement. Reality of our world sets in — there is not enough money for basic research…
So what's left? There is still, of course, Belle-II. Moreover, excellent performance of LHCb experiment at CERN (I wrote about that here) leaves us with great hopes. That is, if Nature cooperates…
So, is Higgs finally here? July 4, 2012Posted by apetrov in Uncategorized.
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Today is a big day at CERN. There are two collaborations that presented their latest results on the search of the Higgs boson. Did they finally discover the Higgs boson?
Let's first figure out what it all means? What two collaborations? What is Higgs boson? And, most importantly, what do we mean by "discovered"?
First things first. The two collaborations that I'm talking about are CMS and ATLAS, two huge detectors and hundreds of professors, postdocs and graduate students working to get and work the data that come out of it. The collaborations looked at almost three years (although 2010 does not really count and 2012 is still going — but with fantastic pace) and found signals of the Higgs boson, a particle that was predicted to be there in the minimal Standard Model.
Why is that we need Higgs boson and why is it there? The Standard Model of particle physics is described by its symmetries — or the symmetry group (SU(2)xU(1)) under which matter contents transform. This symmetry tells us how particles interact — and in fact, that makes Standard Model quite a constrained system. So the introduction of this symmetry is very important. However, this symmetry also tells us that all particles that are described there should be massless! What should one do? The idea is to break that symmetry, of course. The problem is how to break that symmetry. One cannot simply add symmetry-breaking terms (that would wreck the whole original setup), one has to do it indirectly. So the idea was proposed to introduce a field that interacts with all fields that are present in the Standard Model. That field also interacts with itself and forms a condensate (i.e. provides non-zero value for energy density of the vacuum) once, roughly speaking, the temperature of the Universe after the Big Bang drops below certain value. This mechanism gives mass to both electroweak gauge bosons (particles that represent weak force) and quark and leptons. The mechanism itself was first proposed in 1962 by Philip Warren Anderson. The model of spontaneous symmetry breaking was independently developed in 1964 by three groups, Robert Brout and Francois Englert; Peter Higgs; and Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble. The particle that manifests this effect is the famous Higgs boson. Read more about it here. I'll talk more about it in my later posts.
CMS went first (which is a bit unusual, as Atlas, for some alphabetical reason, would always be first to deliver their talk). The talk was delivered by Joe Incandela, a CMS spokesperson. A gist of their talk is that they looked at several possible decay channels of the Higgs boson. First, Higgs can decay to two photons (H → γγ). They see a significant bump at mH = 125 GeV, but only in the combination if different reconstruction techniques. The overall significance is over 4 sigma. Next, they talked about H → ZZ channel. This channel is tougher, as they need to reconstruct Z's that decay in different decay channels. Now, if they combine their data in H → γγ and in H → ZZ they find that statistical significance for signal that the Higgs is there at 5 sigma. However, once they combine all data, especially the H → ττ channel, their combined statistical significance goes slightly down to 4.9 sigma. This is just below discovery by the standards of Physical Review Letters, a very influential physics journal. But this is in very significant.
The next talk was by ATLAS. Fabiolla Gianotti, ATLAS spokesperson, gave that talk. They also see excess in H → γγ channel, but their statistical significance in that channel is lower, 4.5 sigma. Also, they include the so-called look-elsewhere effect — and then their statistical significance goes down to 3.5 sigma. Then, she discussed the H → ZZ channel. They see the excess with 3.4 sigma significance at mH about 125 GeV. Now, the combined results have excess at mH = 126.5 GeV with (local) statistical significance of 5.0 sigma. This is a discovery.
In passing, ATLAS also see a bump in their 4-lepton channel at approximately 90 GeV. Still not clear what it is….
This discovery is very significant. It tells us that our ideas on how electroweak symmetry is broken are at least partially correct. This is also the first truly elementary particle discovered since the Z-boson. There are still many questions, both experimental and theoretical, about the analyses presented today at CERN. What is going on with the H → ττ channel? Is it really a Standard Model Higgs boson? Or some other scalar particle. We'll sure to study those things indeed.
P.S. The theorists who described the effects were there and not only were acknowledged by the experimental speakers, but also got to say a couple of words at the end.
Why advertisers should know physics June 12, 2012Posted by apetrov in Uncategorized.
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Some years ago, when I decided to start blogging, I wrote about an interesting advertisement that Ford Motor Company put up in all major magazines (it was even placed on the side of their headquarters in Dearborn, MI):
Here is what I said in that post of mine from several years ago: "What is interesting about this ad is the equations that this lady is writing — they look like the equations from the famous Peskin and Schroeder's book on Quantum Field Theory (QFT), equations describing renormalization of phi^4 theory! How did Ford get a hold of them?
As it turns out, I happen know the answer. This ad was made by a company that is headquartered in Detroit — I have a business card of one of the authors of this ad!
What happened is that a couple of months ago I was sitting in my office at Wayne State University, looking over my QFT notes that I'm supposed to teach next Fall. A guy showed up at my door and asked to "write down a complicated-looking equation." Now, that's not a usual question that I get when I sit in my office during the lunchtime! He quickly explained that he works for this advertisement company (called JWT) and they were contracted by Ford to produce a series of ads that should highlight the talent of Ford engineers and at the same time appeal to young people. (He showed me a prototype of an ad with that girl sitting next to the blackboard.) So his boss sent him to the closest university (which happen to be WSU, we are located 5 min down Woodward Avenue from their office) to fish out a "complicated equation." The rest is simple — I use Peskin and Schroeder as a main text for my graduate QFT course, so that list of equations was indeed about renormalization of phi^4 theory… I must add that I received no monetary (or any other) compensation…
Amazing, isn't it?"
The reason I re-post part of that old post is the following. I recently went to Florida to participate in CIPANP-2012 conference (I'll post my impressions of this conference later this week). Now, Kennedy Space Center is on Cape Canaveral in Florida, so I rented a car and went to visit that marvelous place. The place is truly amazing! Lots of things to see. The place is still making history: I visited it just a couple of days after the historic launch of the Space X's Dragon capsule.
I also visited a gift shop and bought the following souvenir there:
See how many mistakes they got in there? And it's not "rocket science", it's freshman physics! Quite embarrassing… Clearly, people from that JWT advertising agency in the example above take their job responsibilities much more seriously.
See that NASA seal in the upper left corner? Since I am sure that NASA scientists know physics, I take it as indication that they never visit their gift shop.
CHARM of Hawaii May 14, 2012Posted by apetrov in Uncategorized.
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I'm blogging from the site of CHARM-2012 conference, which has just started in Honolulu, Hawaii. This is a fantastic conference at a fantastic place! The conference will have four full-packed days filled with many aspects of physics related to charmed quark. As I reported earlier, many exciting recent results are associated with charm quark.
Why is the conference taking part in Hawaii? Besides being a nice place in general, it is almost exactly half way between Japan and the US. This meeting alternates between Asian, US and European locations, and last meeting, in 2009, was in Beijing — so it is US' turn. There will be many talks from KEK's Belle collaboration (which University of Hawaii is a member of), LHC experiments, as well as from Tevatron experiments. Besides, world's only operating charm experiment (BES 3) is located in Beijing, China. Indeed, there would be many theory talks as well. It shapes to be a very nice conference — and I'll be reporting about exciting results to be discussed here.
Inverse superconductivity in iron telluride April 1, 2012Posted by apetrov in Funny, Near Physics, Physics, Science, Uncategorized.
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One of the most significant advances of science in the 21st century so far is the 2008 discovery of iron-based high temperature superconductors such as LaFeAsO1-xFx. Previously, all high-temperature superconducting compounds, there so-called cuprates, were based on copper and consisted of copper oxide layers sandwiched between other substances. Much of the interest in those materials has arisen because the new compounds are very different from the cuprates and may help lead to a theory that is different from the conventional BCS theory of superconductivity, where electrons pair up in such a way that so coupled they can then move without resistance through the atomic lattice.
Among those new materials is the iron telluride, FeTe. This compound has the simplest crystal structure and exhibits antiferromagnetic ordering around 70 K and does not show superconductivity. It is now known that substitution of S for Te sites suppresses the antiferromagnetic order and induces superconductivity. Quite amazingly, this is not the most surprising property of those compounds. In a quite remarkable study performed by a group of Japanese physicists, it was shown that the iron-based compound FeTe0.8S0.2 exhibit superconductivity if soaked in red wine. They also performed a study of the effect with different types of wine and other alcoholic beverages, finding that a particular type of wine, 2009 Beajoulais from the French winery of Paul Beaudet, has the most profound effect.
A recent follow-up analysis, however, showed that subsequent and repeated applications of red wine and hard alcoholic beverages, such as cognac or vodka, can induce a new state in the study samples, dubbed the inverse superconductivity. The results, reported in the recent issue of Wine Spectator, clearly show steep increase of the samples' resistivity after only five consequent applications of the liquid substance. As explained by the lead author of the study, John Piannicca, the results follow the simple model of the electron crowd. Interestingly enough, as reported by Dr. Piannicca, this model was developed by observing the change in the mean free path of a group of students visiting bars near the campus of his University.
Moreover, as was shown in a recent work of a group of scientists at the Siberian institute of Advanced Kevlar Engineering, it is also the quantity of alcohol that was responsible for the onset of inverse superconductivity. While this is also consistent with the already mentioned model of electron crowd, the samples obtained in the Siberian lab required much larger quantities of alcohol to achieve the same effect than those obtained in the American or Japanese labs, which could probably be explained by the specifics of liquid utilization. As was shown, the best effect was achieved with a brand of vodka "Imperia" commonly "recognized for it superbly smooth spirit and pure taste," as advocated by its producers. It would be interesting to see how other brands would fare in such a study, which is on-going.


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Searching TV Guide doesn't show anything except TNG reruns on BBC. That can't be comprehensive, though -- TOS is in syndication on local channels all the time. At least, it was the last time I actually spent time at someone's house where they had cable (maybe six weeks ago).
Honestly, I mostly stick to Netflix these days. It's really the only affordable option (for me).
TOS is in syndication with MeTV, they have a Saturday night block of Sci-Fi and Fantasy shows.
So aside from that and TNG on BBC America there is no other regular national syndication of Trek in the USA right now. Which is a huge shame, in the late-90s to early-2000s Trek was easily available on TV.
As you pointed out, the wide availability of Trek on streaming services (Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu all have Trek) may be part of the reason why we don't see it on linear TV much right now.
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