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Thursday, March 25 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: H. Collins, Carnegie Mellon University Title: The Fate of the Alpha-Vacuum 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
Friday, March 26 |
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Thursday, March 25 Wild Mushroom soup Baked ziti w/meatballs and garlic bread $3.50 Sesame chicken over steamed jasmine rice $3.50 Buffalo chicken w/blue cheese wrap $4.75 Grilled brat w/peppers and onions $4.75 Hand rolled Hanabi sushi $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
 Thunderstorms Likely 66º/55º
Extended Forecast |
Secon Level 3 |
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Annual DOE Program Review Posters on Display in Wilson Hall | ||
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As part of Fermilab's
presentations to the Annual DOE Program Review this week, researchers
have prepared thirty-three posters covering a broad range of topics,
from accelerator and
computing projects to physics research results. Given the breadth of
the Fermilab program and the time limits of a two-and-a-half day review,
many of the posters
present topics that were only briefly covered in oral presentations to
the review committee or not at all.
"These reviews are crucial to Fermilab's future, and the poster displays play a large part in their success," said Winslow Baker, a member of PPD who helped organize the poster session. "They are an excellent opportunity for young people to receive recognition and to meet other physicists active in our field."
The posters are on display on the 15th Floor North cross-over of Wilson
Hall. They will remain available for viewing through the weekend, and
everyone is invited to drop by and have a look. While the posters are not
a complete summary of the Fermilab program by themselves, they do provide
a glimpse of the diversity of Fermilab's efforts.
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So Long, Pamela Mathis
"Her knowledge will be missed," Jack Kelly, manager of the Property and Inventory Control Department, said. Getting to know your way around a warehouse with over 4800 different line items takes time. Working at the railhead--surveying, sorting, and moving large pieces of steel or spools of cable for future projects--Mathis has become familiar with Big George, the 70,000-pound forklift. But she will probably miss her human colleagues the most. She liked knowing "you could get the job done no matter what…they knew what they were doing."
Mathis was born in Iowa, and grew up in southern California
before coming to Illinois. She now lives in Montgomery
and plans to move to Phoenix with her husband,
where she will have more time to soak up the sun and go fishing.
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March 22 - March 24 - On Tuesday technicians completed work on TeV sector A4 and cooldown began - A magnet located in TeV sector F0 (HV100) required repair - Operations successfully hipotted the TeV Wednesday morning
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From the Chicago Tribune, March 24, 2004 Fermilab reaches out to neighbors Workshop to focus on public support by William Grady A meeting this weekend with neighbors might be as important to the future of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as the improvements in recent years to exotic equipment that sends millions of subatomic particles whizzing through its tunnels.
The all-day workshop, scheduled for Saturday, will be the first meeting for members of Fermi's new community task force on public participation--an effort by the nation's largest high-energy physics lab to strengthen ties with neighbors in DuPage, Kane and DeKalb Counties.
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CDF Finds Top with Bottom | ||
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| Top quarks are produced in about one out of every ten billion collisions at CDF and DZero. Measuring exactly how often they are produced at Tevatron energy (1.96 TeV) is one of the first questions about top quarks we have tackled in Run II. Each top quark decays into a W boson and a bottom quark. The W boson can then decay into either leptons or quarks. Quarks are observed as jets of particles in the detector. We look for events in the CDF detector containing a high-momentum charged lepton, missing energy from a neutrino, and three or more jets. | ||
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The hard part is separating out the top quark events from the
"background" events which come predominantly from production of W bosons
along with jets. The tracking precision of the
CDF silicon detector makes it possible to identify the characteristic
displaced vertices from b quark decays. By employing a "b-tagging"
technique similar to one used to discover the top in Run I, we can
keep half of the top quark events while removing 95% of the background
events.
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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 23 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."
Spring Fling Book Fair - April 21 & 22
Coed Softball League |
