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Thursday, Aug. 29

2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II
Speaker: Maxwell Hansen, University of Washington
Title: Three Particles in a Box: Mapping Finite-Volume Spectrum to S-Matrix

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

Friday, Aug. 30

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

4 p.m.
Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar - One West
Speaker: Marc-Andre Pleier, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Title: Diboson Production at ATLAS

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Secon Level 3

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Thursday, Aug. 29

- Breakfast: Canadian bacon, egg and cheese Texas toast
- Breakfast: Mexican omelet
- Steak soft tacos
- Braised beef with vegetables
- Stuffed boneless pork chops
- Grilled-vegetable sandwich
- Mandarin orange pecan chicken salad
- Beef barley soup
- Chef's choice soup
- Assorted pizza by the slice

Wilson Hall Cafe menu

Friday, Aug. 30
Dinner
Closed

Wednesday, Sept. 4
Lunch
Menu unavailable

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Meetings with Director Lockyer next week

Incoming Director Nigel Lockyer will hold several meetings with Fermilab employees and users in the first week of September. These meetings are your chance to ask the new director your questions, share your views and opinions on the current state and the future of the laboratory and hear the new director's thoughts and plans as he steps into his new role.

While the discussion in each session will be guided by the needs of the different groups, employees and users can attend any of the sessions. All meetings will take place in Ramsey Auditorium unless noted otherwise.

September wellness offerings, fitness classes and discounts

Wellness offerings for September include Fermilab fitness classes, free wellness offerings and new employee discount information.

Fitness classes:

Yoga
Tuesdays, Sept. 17 to Nov. 5, noon-1 p.m.
Auditorium
$90/person

Kyuki-Do
Mondays and Wednesdays, Sept. 30 to Nov. 6, 5-6 p.m.
Fitness Center Gymnasium
$60/person

Wellness

Lunch and Learn:
Oh, My Aching Back!
Monday, Sept. 16, noon-1 p.m.
Wilson Hall, second floor, Curia II
Free; no registration required

Learn how to strengthen muscle groups that keep the back healthy and exercise to prevent or alleviate low back pain. Get ideas for preventing low back pain. There will be giveaways for all attendees! No registration is needed for this free seminar. Just show up. Feel free to bring your lunch.

BuZheng Qigong and Tai Chi Easy
Mondays and Fridays, Sept. 16 to Dec. 20, noon-1 p.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
Free

Wednesdays, Sept. 18 to Dec. 18, 7-8 a.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
Free

Athletic Leagues

Outdoor soccer
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6 p.m.
Fermilab Village soccer field

Contact O'Sheg Oshinowo at oshinowo@fnal.gov for more information.

Employee Clubs

Tango Club
Thursdays, 6-8:30 p.m.
Ramsey Auditorium

A new club for the most passionate and aesthetic dance. FREE beginner lessons and open practica. All levels welcome. No partner needed! Wear slippery shoes or socks.

New Employee Discounts

Blackhawks preseason tickets
Discounted preseason Chicago Blackhawks tickets available for select dates. Anyone who buys four or more tickets for a game receives an autographed stick from one of the players on last year’s Stanley Cup winning team while supplies last. Use offer code: LAB.

For other 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.

William and Mary physicist takes program director position at National Science Foundation, talks Higgs

From Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, Aug. 22, 2013

After 23 years at the College of William and Mary, Dr. Marc Sher is taking a break from teaching. Instead, he’s taking over an interim position as the program director for theoretical high energy physics/cosmology at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Sher will collaborate with a panel of physicists to decide which projects to fund in the field. The position boasts a $13 million budget and the chance to make some important decisions. For example, he will decide funding levels for institutes ranging from Ivy League universities to small schools.

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DZero data supports spinless Higgs particle

The Higgs boson and its decay products would have different event characteristics if its intrinsic spin were not the value of zero predicted by the Standard Model.

While studies so far have shown that the particle discovered by the LHC experiments in 2012 is some version of a Higgs boson that appears consistent with the Standard Model, there’s a chance that a look from a different angle will put a new spin on things. To be consistent with the predictions of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson must have the correct fundamental properties. Each elementary particle has an inherent property known as spin, which quantifies the intrinsic angular momentum it carries. In the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only elementary particle with zero spin. A recent analysis at DZero tests the Standard Model against an alternate possibility for a Higgs boson that assumes the particle has spin two.

A particle’s spin affects its interactions with other particles. A Higgs boson with a non-zero spin value would be produced and decay in a different manner than the Standard Model predicts and lead to different event characteristics in the DZero detector. To test for these differences, three teams of analyzers re-examined the data used in the most sensitive searches at DZero for the Higgs boson decaying into two bottom quarks. Each team used the differences in the expected features of Higgs events to separate between a spin zero Higgs boson and a particular model where the Higgs boson has a spin value of two.

When combined, the three analyses rule out the spin two Higgs boson model tested with 99.9 percent confidence. This result complements other measurements of Higgs boson spin because it is the first with sensitivity to Higgs boson decays to bottom quarks.

The analyzers also considered the possibility that a pair of Higgs bosons exist, one each of spin zero and spin two, and placed a constraint on the contribution of the spin two portion to the total signal. The analyzers are actively working on testing other spin hypotheses in an effort to capitalize on the DZero experiment’s sensitivity to Higgs boson decays to bottom quarks.

—Mike Cooke

These physicists made major contributions to this analysis.

The DZero Authorship Committee, chaired by Alan Jonckheere (Fermilab), actively maintains the evolving list of hundreds of author names that appear at the beginning of every paper DZero publishes.

Arcs and strokes

The sun sets over the Main Injector ponds. Photo: Barb Kristen, PPD

Accelerate to a Healthy Lifestyle

Walk 2 Run starts Aug. 22

Life on Mars - Fermilab Lecture Series - Sept. 13

MS Excel and Word classes offered this fall

Zumba Fitness and Zumba Toning coming soon

Scottish country dancing meets Tuesday evenings in Auditorium

International folk dancing in Auditorium for summer