Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Parallel Geant4!

After a long and frustrating process I finally got Geant4 to run in parallel!  Who knew setting up this stuff could be so hard?  I liked it better a Fermi Lab / CMU where all the environment was taken care for you.

Now, to the forefront of nuclear science!  Researchers at UTK / ORNL want to create ultra cold neutrons, slow them down to ~10-30 K, and "drop" them down a 100 foot tube to look for flavor oscillations of the quarks in neutron - anti-neutron oscillations.  It's a really nifty idea!  I didn't know that neutron's could oscillate between anti-neutrons, but it makes sense; I mean, why not?

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