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Thursday, March 18 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: U. Haisch, Fermilab Title: Theory of Rare Semileptonic B Decays 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Thursday, March 18 Old Fashioned Tomato soup Honey glazed pork chop w/two market sides $4.75 Baked cod Provencale w/orzo pasta $3.50 Assorted gourmet sandwiches and Panini $4.75 Double bacon cheese burger w/soup or fries $4.75 Rustic chicken salad over wild greens w/fresh fruit $3.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Fermilab Recognized for Participating in the Toys for Tots Program
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March 15 - March 17 - The Fermi accelerator complex is in shutdown - Report includes partial list of shutdown work
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, March 15, 2004 Required Reading: Science Committee Chairman Boehlert on Science Funding House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) was the keynote speaker today at a workshop for the future National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Boehlert's remarks at this workshop, as they are at hearings, were to the point, and concerned a constant problem in Washington: money. This year that problem is greater than it has been in a long time, so Boehlert's words are particularly important. Selections follow:
"But one doesn't need a degree in physics to understand the value of a scientific tool that furthers human understanding of matter while answering practical questions in materials science and biology; a tool that is of use to both academic and industrial researchers; a tool that attracts the best researchers from throughout the world. The U.S. simply must invest to upgrade its capabilities in this area, building on the expertise that Brookhaven and the researchers who use its facilities have developed over the last few decades.
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A Glance at Glancing Collisions | ||||
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In about 25% of their collisions protons and anti-protons exchange only
glancing blows (elastic scattering). These are difficult to measure
because the resulting particles proceed at very small angles down the
beam pipe. For Run II DZero has installed the Forward Proton Detector
(FPD) to measure events in which either the proton, anti-proton, or both,
The FPD was built under the leadership of Andrew Brandt, of University of Texas, Arlington, and Alberto Santoro, UERJ/Brazil, in a U.S./Brazil collaborative international project. The detector consists of "Roman Pots," which are remotely controlled and can be moved close to the beam (within a few milimeters) during stable beam conditions and retracted
DZero has now made its first measurement using these new detectors. It has measured the rate of glancing collisions as a function of the angle of the collision in a region of angle never before measured at Tevatron energies, giving insight into the size and structure of the proton. As shown in the figure, our first data is well described by theory (the blue curve). This first diffractive physics result from DZero will be shown at major conferences this spring and we anticipate many more interesting results in the future, using this new capability of the DZero experiment. | ||||
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Result of the Week Archive |
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New Book Purchase Suggestion Lists New Book purchase suggestion lists for the week of March 16 are now available online. These include Majors book lists in four subject areas. There is also an Amazon suggestion list in the form of a shopping cart, viewable by entering the password "library."
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