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Thursday, June 27
- Breakfast: Canadian bacon, egg and cheese Texas toast
- Breakfast: corned-beef hash and eggs
- Grilled-chicken quesadilla
- Mediterranean-style ziti with asparagus
- Honey baked ham
- Buffalo chicken tender wrap
- Grilled- or crispy-chicken Caesar salad
- Chef's choice soup
- White-chicken chili
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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
Wednesday, July 3
Lunch
Menu unavailable
Chez Leon menu
Call x3524 to make your reservation.
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July wellness offerings, fitness classes and discounts
Wellness offerings for July include Fermilab pool information, fitness classes, wellness classes, athletic leagues and discount information.
Children's swim lessons and adult water fitness classes
Register online at Jeff Ellis Management.
Pool membership
Hours:
Tuesday to Friday, noon to 7 p.m., Saturday to Sunday, 1 to 6 p.m.
Rates:
Individual membership: $105
Family membership (up to 4): $245
Daily rate: $8/person; after 4 p.m.: $6/person
Visit the Fermilab pool website for more information.
Fitness classes:
Kyuki-Do
Mondays and Wednesdays, July 8 to Aug. 14, 5 to 6 p.m.
Fitness Center
$60/person
Muscle Toning
Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 23 to Sept. 17 (no class Aug. 15), 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Fitness Center
$82/person
Wellness:
Weight Management Support Group
Thursday, July 11, noon to 1 p.m.
Wilson Hall Small Dining Room
BuZheng Qigong and Tai Chi Easy
Mondays and Fridays, June 24 to Aug. 30, noon to 1 p.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
Wednesdays, June 26 to Aug. 28, 7 to 8 a.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
Athletic leagues:
Ultimate Frisbee
Mondays and Wednesdays, 5 p.m.
Fermilab Village soccer field
For more information, contact Kayle Devaughan.
Outdoor Soccer
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6 p.m.
Fermilab Village soccer field
For more information, contact O'Sheg Oshinowo.
Employee discounts:
Bristol Renaissance Faire
Six Flags Great America
Fermilab Days
For more discount information, visit the WDRS Employee Discounts Web page.
For more information, contact Jeanne Ecker in the Wellness Office at x2548 or at jecker@fnal.gov.
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Sitewide domestic water flush – June 29-30
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A sitewide domestic water flush will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Photo courtesy of Steve Shirley, FESS |
FESS Operations has tentatively scheduled a sitewide domestic water flush for Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30, with rain dates of July 13 and 14. This annual event starts at approximately 6 a.m. and ends at roughly 6 p.m. each day.
During this time it is not unusual to notice an excessive amount of water on the roadways, standing puddles around fire and flushing hydrants, lower-than-normal domestic water pressure, discoloration in the water and, for those monitoring the facility incident reporting and utility system, low-pressure alarms as well. Typically, not long after each area has been flushed, the water pressure returns and discoloration clears up. In previous years, this process has had no ill effects on laboratory operations, and we anticipate this year to be the same.
FESS Operations asks everyone to be mindful of personnel performing the flushing during the above-mentioned dates, as a portion of their work will be performed in the roadways around Fermilab. Thank you for your consideration during this time.
For more information, contact FESS Operations Mechanical Supervisor John Pollock (JP) at x5253 or pollockj@fnal.gov; Shop Superintendent Greg Gilbert at x6835 or gilbert@fnal.gov; or Mechanical Planner and Scheduler Steven L. Shirley x3007 or shirley@fnal.gov.
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Particle pals: neutrino experiment shows protons and neutrons pairing up
From Scientific American, June 24, 2013
Neutrinos are notoriously antisocial, nearly always slipping past atoms of matter without so much as a "how do you do." But new research indicates that on the rare occasion a neutrino and an atomic nucleus do make contact, the interaction is surprisingly involved.
By training a beam of neutrinos on a plastic target, researchers at the MINERvA experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., have found that when a neutrino collides with an atom it often knocks free not just one proton or neutron, but two. Some of the particles within the atomic nuclei, it appears, are pairing up rather than moving about independently, only to be sprung free in twos when a neutrino strikes. The results will have implications for precision neutrino measurements, which often rely on carefully reconstructing the physics of rare collisions between neutrinos and atoms.
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Physicists find new particle, look for answers
From Talk of the Nation, June 21, 2013
Researchers say that they've discovered a new subatomic particle—one that appears to contain four quarks bound together. Physicist Sean M. Carroll describes the significance of the find and talks about the ongoing effort in physics to explain why the universe is the way it is.
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Evidence of truth and beauty production
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Rare processes that produce a single top quark at a time can give insight into the nature of the weak force.
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Albert Einstein once stated, "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." A recent analysis at DZero takes his advice in a literal search for truth and beauty.
While top quarks are most commonly produced in pairs via the strong force, the W boson, a weak force carrier, will rarely decay into a solitary top quark (also known as a truth quark) and a bottom (or beauty) quark. Certain models of new physics predict that this mode of single-top quark production would be enhanced with respect to the Standard Model. By taking Einstein's advice, DZero analyzers aim to uncover truth and beauty in the universe by observing the simultaneous production of truth and beauty quarks.
Quarks made in a collision turn into sprays, or jets, of particles. Jets produced from a bottom quark can be identified because they tend to be offset by a couple millimeters from the rest of the particles produced in an event. After selecting events that include a W boson signature and bottom quark jets, there are nearly 50 times as many background events as signal. To enhance the sensitivity of their analysis, the analyzers used three independent advanced techniques to discriminate signal from background and then combined the output of all three into a final powerful discriminant.
After examining the DZero Run II data, the analyzers found a significant excess of events above the background prediction and report the first evidence for this mode of single-top quark production. In addition, they presented an improved measurement of another production mode, in which the top and bottom quarks are accompanied by a third quark, and refined an independent measurement of the way the weak force interacts with top and bottom quarks. As part of the legacy of Einstein's appeal to our curiosity, these new measurements of truth and beauty become part of the Tevatron's legacy and provide important constraints on future models of new physics.
—Mike Cooke
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These physicists made major contributions to this analysis.
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Many analyses, like the one above, rely on the DZero b-jet identification group in order to select events that have jets that originated from bottom quarks.
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Put your financial knowledge to the test
Fermilab has teamed up with TIAA-CREF to bring you the What's Your Financial IQ Challenge. Take this educational challenge to have fun and to learn important information about financial planning.
From July 1 to 31, five new questions will be added to the challenge each day, and you can increase your score with every correct answer. The more you play, the better your chance of increasing your financial IQ. (All responses are confidential.)
Ready to test your financial savvy and learn something new each time you play? Start now, and sign on every day.
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Flying over Fermilab
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On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture flew over Fermilab to disperse a chemical that disrupts moth mating. Here, a plane flies over Wilson Hall. Photo: Bill Higgins, AD |
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Scattered thunderstorms
