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Thursday, April 1 11:00 a.m. Special Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II (NOTE LOCATION) Speaker: S. Kettell, Brookhaven National Laboratory Title: First Results from AGS E949 on K-plus Decays to pi-plus, Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: H. Murayama, Institute for Advanced Study Title: World Domination Plan by Anomaly Mediation 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, April 1 Old Fashioned Tomato soup Strip steak smothered w/onions w/your choice of one side $4.75 Lemon pepper catfish w/wild rice $3.50 Grilled chicken Caesar wrap served w/a homemade side salad $4.75 Double patty burger w/Thousand Island, shredded lettuce, pickles, onions and cheese w/fries or small soup $4.75 Homestyle tuna salad over fresh mixed greens $2.50 Hand rolled Hanabi sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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April Fool! Don't believe everything you read in the 9:00 a.m. edition of Fermilab Today. Here is the real thing. (No kidding.) |
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Dorm Two Receives Updated Look | ||
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On January 1 of this year, residents of Dorm Two were
temporarily relocated to clear the way for the building's
first renovations in many years. Several outside contractors
and a few Fermilab employees carried out the renovations,
which were completed in mid-February. Dorm Two now boasts
new floors and carpeting, freshly painted interior walls,
new and renovated bathrooms and a new laundry center.
Furniture in the common areas was changed, and last year
the dorm was equipped with wireless Internet access.
"The residents really like the fresh look. They have given us very positive feedback," said the Housing Office's Linda Olson-Roach.
Dorm Two, originally five separate houses joined together to
serve as offices, has 19 rooms and can hold up to 26 residents.
Fermilab's seven dorms provide temporary and long-term housing
for up to 115 laboratory users and employees with term appointments.
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March 29 - March 31 - During this period Operations established one store. That store with an existing store, provided the experiments with approximately 35 hours and 14 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - Quadrupole problems trouble the Tevatron - Switchyard Septa vacuum work begins
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From Nature, March 25, 2004 Partners fail to find common ground for fusion project by Declan Butler [PARIS] Iter means 'the way' in Latin — but 'lost its way' might be a more apt description of the international fusion project that bears the name. A technical assessment intended to break a stalemate over where to site the facility has itself ended in deadlock, with the six partners blaming each other for the lack of progress.
Negotiations over ITER's site have been stalled since a ministerial meeting in Washington last December, when the United States and South Korea backed the Japanese site at Rokkasho, and China and Russia supported the European Union's site at Cadarache in France. The US$5-billion project seeks to show that heating plasma in a magnetic field can produce fusion energy.
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DZero: Looking for New Physics With Photons | ||
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Today, more than thirty years after Supersymmetry was proposed,
it remains one of the most attractive ways of extending the
Standard Model and unifying the forces. It predicts that each known fermion has a boson superpartner; and each known boson, a fermion superpartner.
In fact, these superparticles could be
the dark matter that pervades the universe. Supersymmetry
has not yet been observed and there are a variety of models
that attempt to explain why this is so. One class of
models predicts events with two isolated photons and large
missing energy that could be observed at the Tevatron.
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In Run II, the DZero collaboration is continuing the search for such
events. The event in the figure has two photons with transverse
energy of 69 and 27 GeV, an electron of 24 GeV and missing
transverse energy of 63 GeV. While an interesting event,
the collaboration must first understand what background
processes could give rise to such an event.
This could be an event with a W boson and two jets where
the jets are misidentified as photons. The analysis team is now
carefully estimating all Standard Model sources of background
and is on the lookout for more unusual events in the growing
data sample.
Using data acquired prior to the event pictured, the collaboration has set the best current limits on such processes. These models predict new particles called gauginos and DZero can say that if a charged gaugino exists, it must be at least 180 times more massive than a proton. Limits such as this give important constraints on our understanding of the universe. | ||
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Result of the Week Archive |
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Tornado and Severe Storm Seminar The Tornado and Severe Storm Seminar is this Saturday, April 3 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. Plan to arrive early to get seats. more information
Women's Personal Protection & Self Defense Class |
