The SLD Years

The SLD Years

…and many years they were1983-2003

The SLD Years

…and many years they were1983-2003

Not an Experiment,a way of Life

SLD Timeline• 1982-83 Scheming and Plotting, Letter of Intent• 1984 Design Report• 1986 Got First M$!!• 1990 Detector more or less Complete• 1991 First Z !! Nan takes SLC under her wing• 1992 Prescott takes over Polarization,1st polarized Z Run• 1998 End of data taking-550,000 Polarized Z’s• 2001 Last Collab Meeting- St. Francis Yacht Club,SFO• 2005 LEP/SLD Electroweak Summary Paper Out

The SLD Design Report

• Marty and the Design Report

• May 1984

Tough Decisions-What Should we emphacise• Some of us wanted to emphacise momentum

resolution with a superconducting coil to find Higgs to lepton pairs Fixed price vs cost plus for building magnet. “Our lawyers are much better then your lawyers”

• Finally decided to go for lower field normal aluminum magnet coil. as it turned out Higgs was way out of our energy range anyway

• Gave up uranium calorimeter Marty-our uranium is only slightly radioactive

Most important SLD decisions were made at a series of

Summit meetings

At the Summit of Vail, Colorado

At the Summit of Alta, Utah

At the Summit of Kirkwood, Ca

Or at the summit of Aspen, Colorado

Steel Erection at Kawasaki Heavy Industries

The Ruth Lykes delivers the steel

Iron in the Pit

280 Convoy with the magnet coil

El Camino

Coil Delivery

Lowering the coil

LAC Vacuum & Argon Cans

LAC module installation

Barrel LAC Assembly

Knut got it right – everything fits!

WIC Testing

Ready for the CDC

Old Technology vs newThe SLD Vertex Detector

VXD3 concept masterminded by Chris Dammerrell

VXD3 meeting the beampipe

Steady hands and many spotters!!!

VXD3 Ready to go…

The normal crowd….

Collaboration Mtg in the Sierras

SLD Timeline• 1982-83 Scheming and Plotting,Letter of Intent• 1984 Design Report• 1986 Got First M$!!• 1990 Detector more or less Complete• 1991 First Z !! Nan takes SLC under her wing• 1992 Prescott takes over Polarization,1st polarized Z Run• 1998 End of data taking-550,000 Polarized Z’s• 2001 Last Collab Meeting- St. Francis Yacht Club,SF

SLD Physics Results

• 182 Journal Publications• Lots of conference Proceedings,Talks,

Abstracts etc• 72 PhD Theses

Constraints on the Higgs Mass

Constraints on the Higgs Mass

125

SLD was the least of

Marty’s accomplishments

He is a master at woodworking

He loves good wine and conversation

He is a superb cook…

…building a great house

Conferring with his architect

…and godfather to his arcitect’s daughter

An eloquent lecturer

Marty is a Stellar Guy