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Alt text: Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident.So true and relevant. It gets even more extreme in publications. Random text example (here: CMS Higgs discovery paper - all time estimates are guesses):
I wrote more about that topic a while ago.
Alt text: Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident.So true and relevant. It gets even more extreme in publications. Random text example (here: CMS Higgs discovery paper - all time estimates are guesses):
The energy deposited in the ECAL [years of work were spent on the readout] is clustered both with general clustering algorithms [43] [someone probably did their PhD on this] and with algorithms that constrain the clusters in ##\eta## and ##\phi## to the shapes expected from electrons and photons with high pT [44][more than 1 PhD thesis]. These specialised algorithms are used to cluster electromagnetic showers without any hypothesis regarding whether the particle originating from the interaction point was a photon or an electron[someone spent months investigating if this would improve the performance]; doing this for electrons from Z -> ee events provides a measurement of the photon trigger [a year of work], reconstruction[another year], and identification[another year] efficiencies, as well as of the photon energy scale[more than year] and resolution[also more than a year].
I wrote more about that topic a while ago.