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FROM FRONT The Battalion I 2.4.15 4 . .Vi ' ■,, ■ y> ■ i j<C i- i.** • “ i.'' ~ • ^ *: . m- ^ r f % i Cody Franklin — THE BATTALION Junior guard Jalen Jones shoots over a Vanderbilt defender in the A&M win Saturday. M. BASKETBALL CONTINUED Ole Miss (14-7, 5-3 SEC) is also feeling the pressure to keep winning. The Rebels willi;he defending a streak of their own, having won their past three conference games, including most recently a 20-point blowout of Mis souri last Saturday. Ole Miss is averaging 75 points a game in SEC play, the highest mark in the conference. Their pro lific offense is spearheaded by guards Stefan Moody (15.4 points per game), Jarvis Sum mers (14.1) and LaDarius White (11.4). “They have three true guards who can all pass, shoot — J said Aggie head coa^^i^ Re^nnedy. “Sum- "C T M “ ,J > mg 14 free throws attempts a game and they’re both shoot ing close to 90 percent from the free throw line. We’ve got to keep them out of the paint. It’ll be a good matchup for us.’’ That proficiency at the free W'i throw line extends beyond the backcourt throughout the entire Ole Miss team, and it’s perhaps the single most im pressive element of their of fense. The Rebels are shoot ing around 80 percent from the stripe, a number that tops all other schools and would lead the NBA as it stands. A&M, on the other hand, ranks last in the SEC in the same category with a mark of 64.4 percent in conference play. To extend their win streak to seven games, the Aggies will have to draw from their experience and recent success on the road. They’ll also look to play zone on the defensive end to eliminate one-on-one matchups with Ole Miss’ stable of talented guards and prevent Caruso and Co. from falling into foul trouble. “This will be a game against one of the better op ponents in the league,’’ Ken nedy said. “We’re going to have our hands full against a really good perimeter team that’s playing very well.” The CMS detector is used to collect data on the particle collisions that happen inside the accelerator. HADRON COLLIDER CONTINUED electronics, most of what we are work ing on now is trigger electronics,” Gilmore said. “You need a trigger in order to tell you when to save data.” This Aggie team just returned from Geneva after replacing 72 of the 540 electrical trigger boards with trigger boards of their own design, said Aysen Tatarinov, a physics doctorate student. These boards are designed to detect the Muon particle. The Muon particle was one of the ones that allowed physicists to find the Higgs-Boson particle. The trigger boards allow the research ers to focus in their research, Gilmore said. “We have 40 million collisions a sec ond, and out of those, maybe 100 are sort of interesting,” Gilmore said. “In fact, in the end, it ends up being one out of 40 million are actually interest ing. It takes a long time to process it to find anything worthwhile.” The LHC is a 14-mile ring buried 300 feet below ground. The collider’s diameter is so huge that it dips into two countries, Switzerland and France. Through electromagnets it accelerates particles before smashing them togeth er at close to the speed of light, gen erating exotic subatomic particles that physicists study to try and understand how the universe is structured. The colhder is processing a lot of data in a short ainount.oft.ijie. Tatati- nov said. The focus of the trigger board is to pay attention to the high-energy collisions. “You will see low energy stuff much more often, and all of the past physicists have already studied that quite well, and in order to study more interesting or exciting things we need to study the high energy collisions,” Tatarinov said. "It is difficult to say what we will find. If you look at the history of discovery, people were looking for something but they were finding something different." Alexei Safanov, team leader of A&M faculty with the LHC “We are interested in more high en ergy collisions.” The team is hoping that through these upgrades they will be able to discover more particles, Safonov said. The list of hopeful finds include Su per Symmetry, Dark Matter and many other phenomena that physicists have yet to explain. “It is difficult to say what we will find,” Safanov said. “If you look at the history of discovery, people were look ing for something but they were find ing something different. Something that would be even more interesting because this would allow you to learn even more and help you understand better what is happening in this micro micro micro world.” To understand the universe’s small est building blocks, massive machines such as the LHC have to be made for a simple purpose — to break things. “So let’s say you had a car and you wanted to figure out how a car engine worked, and you couldn’t, for some rea son, open up the hood and look at it,” said David Tobuc, professor of physics and astronomy. “What would you do? Since we don’t know what to do, our best shot is bashing two cars together and see what pops out. That’s what we do. 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