Nick Barlow

Nick Barlow

Nick Barlow is a post-doctoral research fellow at Cambridge University, based at CERN. He works on the ATLAS semiconductor tracking detector and is investigating R-Parity violating supersymmetry.

Frantic for femtobarns...

In particle physics, we describe the number of interesting particle collisions that we have in our data in terms of the "integrated luminosity", which is measured in units called inverse femtobarns. In the whole of 2010, the LHC delivered about 0.04 inverse femtobarns (about 3 million million collisions). Nowadays, it can deliver twice that in a single day!

19 August 2011