"This time we're shooting through a brick!"

Larry Nodulman (during a discussion on the reconstruction of electrons in the CDF II detector, just refurbished with a new set of silicon microstrip layers (SVX'), more powerful and capable of identifying the impact parameter of charged tracks with a dozen micron accuracy, but also heavier and bulkier than its predecessor, and thus providing more material for multiple scattering of particles.)

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