The Times has a wonderful piece about life in the Control Room of an experiment over at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) on Long Island.The pic on the left shows real time heavy-ion collisions on the experiment that I used to work on, PHOBOS.
On some shifts, it would just be me and someone else looking over this awesome experiment, hoping nothing would go wrong. The hourly checklists involve a series of readings/measurements of various status reports. It was pretty boring, but one could usually get a lot of work done during the down time or get into great conversations with colleagues.
Either way, good times were had, even if it was 3am in the dead of winter.
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