Arriving at Fermilab
Before You Arrive you can have your luggage and belongings shipped to the Fermilab receiving office, which is located near the fixed target area, off of Road B (see Appendix A). The address is:

Your Name
Fermilab
Receiving, Site 38
P.O. Box 500
Batavia, IL 60510

Fermilab Layout and Local Area
Fermilab is a huge facility located approximately 50 kilometers west of Chicago, Illinois. There are several primary areas and places of interest on the site, all of which can be seen on a scale model of Fermilab located on the fifteenth floor of the Wilson Hall building. We divided this section into Wilson Hall, Fermilab Village and The Experiments (see map on Appendix A).

Wilson Hall
Wilson Hall or The High Rise. This structure dominates the landscape, and is the center of Fermilab operations. Nearly all of the experiments and divisions have offices upstairs. The first floor has the Users Office, Travel Office, Public Affairs, Cafeteria, an ATM, and the One West meeting room. A medical office for Fermilab employees, the Key and ID office, Argonne Credit Union, Duplicating and Visual Media are located on the ground floor (one floor below the first floor). Down the large set of stairs at the back of Wilson Hall is Ramsey Auditorium, where the Fermilab Auditorium committee sponsors Cultural Events for general public. You can also cash a check with the cashier on the fourth floor, east side (you must show your Fermilab ID).

The most important thing to know about Wilson Hall is how to interpret directions that people may give you for places inside the High Rise. The front of the building (with the semi-circular driveway and the reflecting pond) is referred to as north. Directions generally are given in the form WH1W, where WH stands for Wilson Hall, the number denotes the floor, and the subsequent letters define the cardinal point of the location, relative to the above definition of North. For example, the Users and Travel Offices are located at WH1NW, behind the elevators.

The High Rise offers many services to users. The locations of primary interest are listed below.

Users Office: Located on the first floor of Wilson Hall (WH1NW), the Users Office is your primary source of user-related information at Fermilab. It should also be your first stop upon your first arrival at Fermilab. There, they will subscribe graduate students to fnalgrad@fnal.gov, an e-mailing list of graduate students at Fermilab. (usersoffice@fnal.gov).

Travel Office: Located conveniently next to the Users Office, the Travel Office can provide services relating to Fermilab business travel only. (travel@fnal.gov)

Key & ID Office: Located on the ground floor near the west elevators, extension 4506, the Key & ID Office will likely be one of the subsequent stops you make. Pick up your Fermi ID, automobile stickers and hang tags here. You will need to renew your ID every one year.

The Library: The library is located at WH3S, and is tailored to suit the needs of HEP experimenters. (http://www-lib.fnal.gov/library/sciref.html).

Eurest Dining: The Cafeteria is located at the southeast end of the first floor of the high rise (WH1SE). You will find more information on page (http://fnalpubs.fnal.gov/eurest/Eurest.html).

Recreation Office: The Recreation Office is located on the west side of the 15th floor of Wilson Hall (WH15W). They will tell you about all things recreational at Fermilab. You can get a taste of the offerings in the Recreation chapter. (http://fnalpubs.fnal.gov/bendept/recreation/Recreation.html).

The Post Office and Stockroom: The post office and stockroom both used to be located in Wilson Hall. They have been moved out to Site 38. Note that the post office can handle personal letters but not personal packages. See the Postal and Parcel Services section later in the Getting Around Fermilab chapter.

The Medical Office: Some basic first aid can be obtained on the ground floor of the High Rise WHGFW, extension 3232. This service is only for Fermilab employees. < p>Meeting Rooms: Wilson Hall has a few meeting rooms you should know about. These rooms are listed with all the others conference rooms around Fermilab in the Appendix B.(http://www-dir.fnal.gov/meetingmaker/DirConfRoomsEvents.html).

Fermilab Village
The Village is located near the East entrance to Fermilab (Batavia Road), containing a number of construction labs as well as housing for students and other visitors. Appendix A has a map of the village.

The Housing office is located in the Aspen East House, Batavia Road and Sauk Boulevard. See more about this in the Getting Around Fermilab chapter.

The Users Center, the Kuhn Barn, the laundry and vending machines are located on Sauk Boulevard. The Users Center is open from Monday to Friday from 6PM to 12PM. It has a TV/video room, 2 pool tables and a tennis table, a restaurant “Chez Leon” which opens Wednesdays for lunch and Thursdays for dinner. The Users center also has a wide piano room and a bar.

The Kuhn Barn is used for all kinds of parties and for dance classes.

The laundry and vending machines are located across the street of the Users center. The laundry facility has also a small room with a piano. To be able to use it you should ask for the key at the housing office.

The Gym and the sports courts are located also at the village. To be able to get into the Gym you will need to have a magnetic card. You will have to pay an annual fee at the recreation office to get one. You will find more information at the “Recreation” section of this guide.

The Day care is also located at the village. It opens at 7AM and closes at 5PM.

The laboratories which are located at the village are: Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3, Lab 4, Lab 5, Lab 5 Pole Bldg., Lab 6, Lab 7, and Lab 8.

The Experiments

CDF (E830)- “Collider Detector at Fermilab”

The CDF experiment (http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/) is located near the high rise, 60 degrees clockwise along the ring. Across Road D from CDF is the Industrial Area and the Feynmann Computing Center.

E-830 is the upgraded version of CDF for Collider Run II, where the bunch spacing will decrease from 3500 nsec to 396 nsec and luminosities much greater than 1031 cm-2sec-1 are expected. The goal of this upgrade project is to improve the detector to enable it to operate at a luminosity of 2 x 1032cm-2sec-1 with a Tevatron bunch spacing as small as 132 nsec.

D0 (E823)

The DØ experiment (http://www-d0.fnal.gov/) is located directly across the ring from Wilson Hall, and can be reached by taking Eola Rd south to Swenson, west to DØ. Remember the Eola entrance is closed.

D0 has also a page with Information for new arrivals (http://www-d0.fnal.gov/newd0/welcome-web.html).

The approved D0 upgrade for Run II, E-823, must operate at luminosities near 2 x 1032cm-2sec-1 with bunch spacings as short as 132 nsec. To meet the challenges of such a high rate environment, the entire central tracking system will be replaced by a silicon microstrip detector, a scintillating fiber tracker, a solenoid magnet, and central and forward preshower detectors. The new detectors will provide enhanced pattern recognition and triggering opportunities for both lepton and photon final states. Studies of top quark, electroweak, and b physics will be significantly enhanced by the new detectors.

Fixed Target
Many fixed target experiments are spread out along three branches heading northeast from the High Rise, centering around Road A. In the Appendix A you will find a map with the fixed target area.

Meson Area
HyperCP (E871) (http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e871/welcome.html) and
NUSEA (E866) (http://p25ext.lanl.gov/e866/e866.html)

Neutrino Area
NuTeV (E815) (http://www-e815.fnal.gov/),
KTeV (E799/E822) (http://ppd.fmal.gov/experiments/ktev/ktev.html) and
BooNE (E898) (http://www-boone.fnal.gov/)

Proton Area
E872 (http://fn872.fnal.gov/),
SELEX (E781) (http://fn781.fnal.gov/) and
FOCUS (E831) (http://www-focus.fnal.gov/)

Accumulator
APEX (E868) (http://www-apex.fnal.gov/),
Charmonium (E835) (http://www-e835.fnal.gov/) and
Antihydrogen (E862) (http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/hbar)