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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: Now trying to do it right.
- Message-ID: <920729153021.20a00b54@FNALD.FNAL.GOV>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:24:40 GMT
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- We are back to running the experiment on a 48 hour cycle, 24 with source
- in and 24 with source out. I will try to make the changes on a more
- regular interval, so that I can use things like the FFT on the data. But
- it will be hard to do it right until I build a machine to do it.
-
- I seem to be much less excited than some of the rest of you. There have
- been too many false alarms in the past. So the first data just says to me
- "take the time now to do a better experiment". There is the problem that
- the "anomalous heat" level does seem to be increasing over time. For any
- long term change over 10 mw, I am at a loss as to the cause. Ov course
- every time I do something, like the recent change in the saw tooth algorithm,
- there is a small chance for a change in calorimeter balance point.
-
- But I believe the calorimeter is very stable. So if it is indicating 30 mw
- and this changes to 40 my and I have not done anything like change the saw
- tooth frequency, then I think it is significant, and have lots of data to
- prove it. (mw not my)
-
- So there will not be much to report for a while. I have you all excited
- and the data is not worth that yet. Poor Ed Storms talked too much and it
- has got him a lab full of reporters.
-
- The plan is to alternate source in and source out until the new source
- arrives. I will then put it in on the next "in" cycle. If this produces
- a big increase in power, I will get excited, and will put up a "red alert"
- message! Meanwhile, I will accumulate low level data for a base line.
-
- Tom Droege
-
- P.S. Robert Eachus, I have tried every way I know (not much) to send you
- a message. How do I do it. Would like to give you detailed info on the
- data.
-