So long and thanks for all the events
March 3, 2008
The original incarnation of the CLEO detector first started looking at the products of e+ e- collisions in 1979; the latest (and last) version, CLEO-c, recorded its last event at 8 am Eastern today - an electron and a positron bouncing off each other. Along the way, 450 papers have been published on CLEO data. We had a little celebration in the counting room as the last run, 234607, ended:
There’s still a lot of work to do - we need to decommission CLEO and reconstruct and analyze the last data!
March 7, 2008 at 4:15 pm
[...] stopped taking data earlier this week. We looked in the last data run (7:38 am to 8 am) of just over 61 thousand events for collisions [...]