Today is computing division maintenance day for my experiment.  This makes work a little more interesting — the tools I use to do my job have been slowly disappearing all morning, and are now to the point that I can’t do much of anything.  So instead I’m going to take a few minutes to share with you some of the work that has been keeping me so busy:

The details of this plot are beyond the scope of this blog, so I’ll just tell you that the pink part of the graph above is what I’m trying to measure, and this plot is really exciting for a lot of reasons.  It is the first plot like this we’ve presented publicly and is an indication that MINERvA is going to make some really, really nice measurements of neutrino interactions. Also, on a much sillier note, I picked out the color scheme and am really happy with it.  The last time we presented stuff publicly, we used a very masculine red-and-black color theme.  I’m glad I got to feminize our work a little bit.  The experiment is named after a greek goddess after all!

And okay, okay, most people are not here for the physics.  So here’s your baby picture fix:

Also, Lucy has been registering her dissatisfaction that Eli has supplanted her on this blog:

This week, I’m a single mom while Howard is away in Ithaca.  It is fun to have Eli all to myself, but I’m really glad I don’t have to be a single parent all the time — it’s a lot of hard work!

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