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This is a picture from
the DELPHI event display.
It shows a representaton of the detector and the results of
an electron-positron collision at 161 GeV -
sufficient energy to create
a W+ and W-.
Each W decays into a quark and antiquark
each of which produces a jet of particles.
The four jets are seen by the detector, shown
in red, green, blue,
and black.
LEP first achieved 160 GeV beams on the
morning of 9th July 1996 (I was there!).
DELPHI was lucky enough to be the first of the four the LEP experiments to
see a W event .
Of course luck comes to those prepared, and it was no doubt due to the
excellent state of
the DELPHI
Slow Controls (OK, the
whole online system)
that we detected the event and identified it so quickly.
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And here are some other nice pictures
of Jean-Luc as Locutus of Borg (149k
GIF), the front cover of the masters' greatest work (45k
JPEG), Sigourney (35k JPEG),
and the only way to talk to your computer (11k GIF);
a film clip from happier days (103k MPEG); and
a sound clip in dubious
taste (76k Sun AU, SoundBlaster VOC,
or Windows RIFF WAV).
Sigh...
Tim Adye,
<T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>
