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Thursday, November 11 9:00 a.m. Presentations to the PAC - Curia II 2:45 p.m. (NOTE TIME) Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: P. Skands, Fermilab Title: A New Model for Parton Showers and the Underlying Event 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: A. Jansson, Fermilab Title: Tevatron Ionization Profile Monitors
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Thursday, November 11 Santa Fe Black Bean Soup Marinara Meatball Sub $4.75 Stuffed Manicotti $3.75 Sauteed Liver and Onions $3.75 Baked Ham & Swiss on a Ciabatta Roll $4.75 Sausage & Sweet Onion Strombolis $3.25 Crispy Fried Chicken Ranch Salad $4.75 |
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E-cooling Wraps Up Its Shutdown Work | ||
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For 12 weeks Fermilab employees have worked feverishly on installing accelerator
upgrades, fixing equipment and performing maintenance tasks. Slowly the accelerator
complex is coming back to life, and power testing for the Tevatron will begin
this weekend. The beam commissioning of the Main Injector is to begin on Saturday
after Thanksgiving (11/27), and the Tevatron and the Antiproton Source will
follow shortly thereafter.
Between now and Thanksgiving, members of the Electron Cooling project will complete their work in the Main Injector tunnel. The work related to the E-cool project determined the overall length of the shutdown: 13 weeks. "This week, there are still about 20 people working on the E-cool project in the Main Injector tunnel," said Jerry Leibfritz, who coordinates the work. Much of the E-cool shutdown work left to be done is baking out the beam lines to prepare for the best possible vacuum. Technicians are finishing the bake-out of the two beam lines transporting electrons between the Pelletron accelerator in the MI-31 building and the Electron Cooling section in the MI tunnel. Over the next 10 days the project will bake out the 2 beam lines in the MI tunnel itself. "Each bake-out takes 4 to 5 days, and we expect to be done before Thanksgiving," said Leibfritz. "Getting the vacuum systems complete and leak-tight is very rewarding. There is so much involved in building a leak-tight, ultra-high vacuum system." The entire Ecool project includes the reassembly of the Pelletron accelerator and its beam line. The section that runs through the MI tunnel, embracing the Recycler storage ring, is about 70 feet long and had to be installed during the shutdown. Before the installation, this section was a simple piece of beam pipe. Now it contains 10 Electron Cooling tanks with solenoids, in which a continuous beam of electrons will mix with a stream of antiprotons to cool the antiprotons. Below the cooling section is a new beam line through which the electrons travel back to their source: the Pelletron in the MI-31 building adjacent to the tunnel. Commissioning of the Pelletron will begin in February, and cooling of antiprotons should begin in late 2005. | ||
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URA Scholarships Require SAT Test Scores | |
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Every year, the Universities Research Association awards a number of scholarships to children
of regular, full-time Fermilab employees. URA scholarships are awarded on
the basis of SAT scores.
Scholarship candidates must be high school seniors who will begin a four-year college degree program in the fall. The maximum amount of the scholarship is $4000 for tuition and fees, and is renewable for four years for students in good academic standing.
Applications are available online
January 1 through March 1. Scholarships will be awarded in early April.
Questions about the program may be directed to Jeannelle Smith of Human Resources,
x4367.
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Fermilab Lecture Series Tomorrow Night Carl Haber of LBNL Presents "Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Physics to Restore Early Sound Recordings" Sound was first recorded and reproduced by Thomas Edison in 1877. Until about 1950, when magnetic tape use became common, most recordings were
A video preview of this topic is available online. Look for the
Discovery Channel's story about the work of Dr. Haber.
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, November 9, 2004 Trends in First-Year Graduate Physics & Astronomy Students In 2003, the number of first-year physics and astronomy graduate students reached the highest level since 1994, according to a report by the American Institute of Physics' Statistical Research Center. The October 2004 report also highlights an upturn in the number of US citizens who are starting graduate school in physics and astronomy, while the numbers of students from China and India continue to grow as well. Read more |
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Sampling Jet Flavor on the Way to the Higgs | ||||||
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Precision measurements of top-quark properties and searches for new
physics are large parts of the physics program at Fermilab's
Tevatron. These studies depend largely on the accurate predictions of
their underlying Standard Model background compositions. In
particular, the ongoing efforts to find evidence for a Standard Model Higgs boson
are very sensitive to small fluctuations in background rates.
Many signals of new phenomena and the search for the Higgs require
Secondary vertex tagging relies on displaced vertices formed by the
The Run II upgrade of the DZero detector has provided the means of testing this anomalous result. In a selection of leptonic W-boson
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Result of the Week Archive
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During the shutdown, the Accelerator Update will offer a series on the history
and operation of the laboratory's accelerator complex. The main injector history
is the ninth in a series.
Read the Current Accelerator Update |
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Wanted: Einstein Materials From Beanie Babies to coffee mugs, you can find Einstein's face on just about anything these days, and symmetry magazine wants to know what kinds of Einstein materials you have. Whether it's a t-shirt or even an action figure, send a photo to Elizabeth Clements or drop by Public Affairs to show off your collection by November 19. Items may be borrowed in order to be photographed for an upcoming issue of symmetry.
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