7:12pm December 31, 2014

Traces of my father online.

Search for millicharged particles at SLAC. (PDF version here.)

Performance of a longitudinally segmented CsI(Tl) array suitable for a detector in a low-energy or medium-energy e+ e- storage ring. (PDF version here.)

Test of a longitudinally segmented CsI array for a tau charm factory detector. (PDF version here.)

The Mark-{II} Vertex Drift Chamber. (PDF version here.)

A Surface Barrier Beam Monitor. (PDF version here.)

Sometimes he would get first author status on these papers because his name came first alphabetically, and then people would call him asking all these questions and he’d be like “Uh… you should probably ask a physicist that, I’m an electronics technician.”

And he always participated in the annual SLAC Run where they’d run a race around the 2-mile-long particle accelerator. Here’s a link to the results of one of those runs, with his name on it:

22nd Annual Event – 11/4/1993

Here’s a newsletter about another run (PDF format only) go down to page 11 and you’ll find a picture of my father on the right-hand side and a little blurb about him.

My mom sent me some of this information and I found other parts of it. I swear she and I are both Memorializers, whatever else we are in response to grief.

Oh and my mom found this article about my dad’s boss: Martin Perl, 87, Dies; Nobel Laureate Discovered Subatomic Particle. I got to meet him once, but I spent most of my time with the people my dad worked with more directly (other electronics technicians and engineers).