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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: The Experiment
- Message-ID: <921218155112.20c0129c@FNALD.FNAL.GOV>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:21:10 GMT
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- I have not said much about the experiment lately, but it runs continuously.
- I am trying to understand the systematic errors. Because I will try the
- next run over a wide temperature range, and because it will mostly run at
- 60 C, I cannot operate the shell servo. This means that I can be affected
- more by the ambient temperature. Almost any test gives me a 0.5% rms
- calorimeter. Mostly I measure a 0.1% calorimeter. But because I sometimes
- get a larger error than I expect, it will be hard to claim the smaller
- number. Too bad I can't run the shell servo. Really good measurements will
- have to await the Mark III.
-
- So I now announce that 1 sigma for the upcoming experiment is 35 mw. This
- means that 100 mw or so is needed to attract attention, and several hundred
- milliwatts is needed for publication as a possible positive result. 3.5 watts
- would be 100 sigma, and would really make me excited as it would be beyond
- any possible error.
-
- If a few weeks from now I start saying a few tens of milliwatts is significant,
- remind me of this post.
-
- Fortunately this is the prime heating season in Chicago. No chance now for a
- warm spell where the furnace would turn off until February. So the basement
- temperature is quite constant.
-
- Tom Droege
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