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Cody Franklin — THE BATTALION
Junior guard Jalen Jones shoots over a Vanderbilt
defender in the A&M win Saturday.
M. BASKETBALL
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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-
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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
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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. One of the crazy things that we have
learned is that you can bash two particles
together and create new particles.”
After the Higgs-Boson was discov
ered, the LHC got shut down in order
to implement new upgrades for more
discoveries, Toback said. These upgrades
include die capability’ for better detectors
and faster moving particles. The LHC
will be moving particles at higher ener
gies which will allow bigger particles to
be fonneff upon collision. The new sen
sor- will be better prepared to capture^’*?'
• sc hiph speed collisions. "
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