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November 25, 2002

Measuring the Size of Subatomic Collisions

Dr. Thomas D. Gutierrez
University of California, Davis

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Thomas D. Gutierrez of the University of California, Davis (in residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) will discuss how optical methods, originally developed to measure the angular sizes of stars, are used to help understand how quarks form particles measured in the lab. [The lecture in PowerPoint]