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Wednesday, June 26

3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over

THERE WILL BE NO FERMILAB COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK

Thursday, June 27

2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II
Speaker: Georgia Karagiorgi, Columbia University
Title: Sterile Neutrinos for Believers and Non-Believers

3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over

4 p.m.
Accelerator and Physics Technology Seminar (NOTE DATE) - One West
Speaker: Anna Grassellino, Fermilab
Title: Pushing the Boundaries of RF Superconductivity

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Wednesday, June 26

- Breakfast: breakfast strata
- Breakfast: ham, egg and cheese English muffin
- Carolina pulled-pork sandwich
- Smart cuisine: herb and lemon fish
- Baja chicken enchilada casserole
- Italian antipasto panini
- Mumbo jumbo baked potato
- Texas-style chili
- Vegetarian harvest moon vegetable soup

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Wednesday, June 26
Lunch
- Stuffed portobello mushroom with spinach and feta
- Romaine, strawberry and orange salad
- Vanilla bean cheesecake

Friday, June 28
Dinner
Guest chefs: Grace and Gary Leonard
- Asparagus salad
- Halibut en papillote
- Pasta with cilantro pesto
- Grilled pound cake with seasonal fruit and pomegranate molasses

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From symmetry

Around the U.S. in 17 labs

Chart a course to knowledge with symmetry's interactive map of all 17 U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. Image: Sandbox Studio

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Graduate Profile

Michelle Prewitt

Michelle Prewitt works on the DZero experiment.

NAME:
Michelle Prewitt

WHICH UNIVERSITY DID YOU ATTEND?
Rice University

WHAT EXPERIMENT ARE YOU ON?
DZero

WHAT IS YOUR RESEARCH FOCUS?
I searched for the rare decay Bs → μ+μ-. This decay is particularly interesting because the rate at which this process occurs can be affected by new physics. By determining the branching fraction of this decay, new physics models can be constrained or excluded.

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN PARTICLE PHYSICS?
NASA. I participated in the NASA Academy program at Marshall Space Flight Center the summer before starting graduate school. My research project involved calibrating a particle detector used in material testing.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN FIVE OR 10 YEARS?
I see myself involved in interesting research. As long as I have a puzzle to work on, I'm happy.

DURING GRAD SCHOOL, WHAT WAS THE MOST UNUSUAL OR EXCITING THING YOU DID OUTSIDE OF PHYSICS?
As far as unusual goes, I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. It is tons of fun, and I highly recommend it. The most exciting thing I did during graduate school was get married. This wasn't really outside of physics, though, since I met my husband at Fermilab.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW?
I am looking for a postdoc or research position that will allow me to work from Houston.

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of occasional profiles of recently graduated students who conduct research at Fermilab. The series is intended to highlight Fermilab early-career scientists' work at and outside the laboratory.

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Looking down the detector

Cables enter the top of the MINOS detector. The picture points toward the beam source. Photo: Elliott McCrory, AD
The bottom of the MINOS detector resembles an arcade. Photo: Elliott McCrory, AD
In the News

'Charged charmonium' confounds particle physicists

From Physics World, June 18, 2013

Physicists working independently at two different particle-physics labs have found tantalizing evidence for a new and mysterious hadron. Dubbed Zc(3900), the particle seems to be a "charged charmonium" and is made from quarks assembled in a way that has possibly never been seen before. Further studies of Zc(3900) could provide important new information about the strong force that glues together quarks in hadrons.

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From the Particle Physics Division

The big move

Chris Polly

Chris Polly, project manager of the Muon g-2 project, wrote this column.

Many of you have probably seen the spectacular pictures coming from Brookhaven Lab showing the effort going into moving a 50-foot diameter electromagnet to Fermilab for the Muon g-2 experiment. Although pictures may be worth a thousand words, they are still are not enough to convey the enormous role that Fermilab's Particle Physics Division has played in bringing this transport to fruition.

The concept of moving to Fermilab the g-2 equipment previously used at Brookhaven and coupling it to the post-Tevatron accelerator complex started several years ago. The immediate difficulty became how to move the large, delicate superconducting coils. Transport by water was clearly preferred, but the closest waterway to Fermilab still left a 30-mile jaunt through the busy Chicago suburbs.

With much assistance from Fermilab's Procurement Department, PPD scientists and engineers commissioned feasibility studies from industry leaders to determine if the massive coils should travel by air or land to and from the barge. Led by Hogan Nguyen and Del Allspach, the team developed engineering specifications and investigated regulations. It soon became clear that ground transport was the only solution.

After a lengthy technical evaluation, the transport contract was awarded to Emmert International. The coordination effort has since expanded to include literally several hundred stakeholders, including two national laboratories, transportation authorities, state police, local law enforcement, community leaders and the media.

In parallel with the planning, many calculations have been performed to understand forces during both the marine and ground transport. Most recently, a full quality assurance plan to mitigate risk during transport was developed and implemented. The goal is to prevent the ring from flexing by more than one eighth of an inch and potentially damaging the superconducting coils during the transport. Strain gauges, accelerometers, slope meters and GPS were installed with a satellite uplink that will allow for continuous monitoring of conditions throughout the transport. Nitrogen bottles attached to the shipping fixture will continuously provide over-pressure to prevent air and moisture from entering the vacuum vessels located inside the magnet coils. You now can follow the move of the ring online.

None of this could have been possible were it not for the dedication of our very talented Fermilab staff. Thank you for all your hard work.

Del Allspach, PPD, shakes hands with Brookhaven scientist Bill Morse just before the Muon g-2 ring departs Long Island, NY.
The Muon g-2 ring departs Long Island on a barge headed down the east coast.
Safety Update

ESH&Q weekly report, June 25

This week's safety report, compiled by the Fermilab ESH&Q section, contains two incidents.

An employee scraped his left calf on a pitchfork tine hidden by brush along a creek. He received first-aid treatment.

After misstepping, an employee hit her head and suffered an abrasion.

Find the full report here.

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