Dead Media Beat: High Energy Physics data

*When the data firehose stops gushing…

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000770

When the BaBar experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory shut down in April 2008, it brought an end to almost nine years of taking data on the decays of subatomic particles called B mesons.

But that was hardly the end of the story for the 500 scientists working on the experiment. In November they celebrated the publication of their 400th paper, and they expect the next few years will yield at least ...