More Skew testing and a hike!

Yesterday, I showed up to work and not many of the people I had been normally seeing were there yet. I just started to read more about Garfield and then at about 9:30, one of the more in charge Indian bosses said I could start testing. He made sure I knew what I was doing. I think I actually more about the system the Egyptian told me about than he did. At any rate, I started testing some wires and then at about 10:30 or so, two other Indian summer students came over and I showed them how to do the testing. Archana Sharma, my supervisor said that I would be staying at the Meyrin site for a while, so she had me teach them so they could test after I left. I really hope I did a good enough job of explaining it...

After work yesterday, I rested at my room for a bit and then went back up the mountain with both Alex's and Zack. We went up even further this time and packed a picnic. It was a pretty tough hike and bike, since we gained 1400 feet elevation (doubling the altitude of CERN's Meyrin Site). We shard picnic food including: fresh mozzarella, nutella, bread, salami, cheese, poptarts (I brought from the US for breakfasts), several varieties of crackers, an orange, and some pineapple rings. It was really good and an awesome view. It was at the picture of Lake Geneva from the furthest up on the previous post.

After we coasted the 5 miles back down to CERN, we played cards. First, we played pinochle and then Monopoly deal and then we taught Tina how to play pinochle. Everyone seems to like it, so that is good:)

Today, I stayed on the Meyrin site and met Archana at 9 in the LHC building that has branches for the 4 main colliders on the LHC: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. She told Filipe and I to look up all of the different muon detectors in each of the detectors and what gas mixtures are used in each. We were then supposed to find the ionization energy for each type of gas in the mixture and look at the cross section graphs to weight the gases in the mixtures to find an overall ionization energy. The cross section graphs give the probability of ionizing on the y axis versus the energy in electron volts on the x axis. I couldn't find many of these graphs though, so I wasn't sure how to put together this information. Anyway, I'm asking for a little more guidance and will then keep working on it.

After work today, I will go on a bike ride with most of our group down to the river that drains from Lake Geneva. It should be a pretty ride through the country side, especially since there is a nice mixture of clouds and blue skies out there today.

Well, I am officially all caught up! Bonjour!