I’m So Proud of the Part I Played

Posted by on July 7, 2006; This entry is filed under Uncategorized.
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Can anyone beat the number of authors of this paper entitled Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at CDF II with the Matrix-Element Method?

I counted 729.

Hat tip ChicagoBoyz

3 Comments

  1. Fly July 7th, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    I?ve had several friends who got PhD?s in experimental particle physics. It is a tough path. The experiments take many years and involve large teams. Most of the measurement equipment was specialized and was designed and built using graduate student labor. The professors in charge of the project would peel out a small piece and allocate it to the PhD candidate for his thesis. At my university it took an average of 8 years of postgraduate work to get the doctorate (compared to three and half years for a computer science PhD and five years for mathematics PhD). The lab director?s name would be listed as a main author on all papers that came from the lab. In the lab with which I am familiar this was fair since the lab director followed all projects closely and made valuable contributions.

  2. bioIgnoramus July 8th, 2006 at 4:12 am

    Do you happen to know the paragraph:author ratio?

  3. Dan S. July 11th, 2006 at 4:32 am

    This is an eye-opener. Did they all get to review the draft and make comments?

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