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Tuesday, May 11 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
Wednesday, May 12 |
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Tuesday, May 11 Creamy Turkey Vegetable soup Popcorn Shrimp Hoagie $4.75 Salisbury Steaks with Mushroom Au Jus $3.50 Blackened Chicken Rotini in Cajun Cream Sauce $3.75 Smoked Turkey Breast on Homemade Fococcia $4.75 Philly Cheese Stromboli $2.75 Chipotle Chili & Queso Nachos Supreme $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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First Fermilab LHC Magnet Leaves Illinois, Bound For Geneva | ||
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Officials of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
near Chicago, and of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN,
in Geneva, announced today (Tuesday) the shipment of an advanced superconducting
magnet from Fermilab to CERN. The first of a series of such magnets designed and
built at Fermilab, the magnet is destined to play a key role in the operation of
the Large Hadron Collider, a new particle accelerator now under construction at
CERN, due to begin operating in 2007.
The departure of the 43-foot (13-meter) magnet marks the culmination of a decade-long Fermilab effort to design, develop, manufacture and test the next generation of focusing magnets for particle accelerators. In addition to nine U.S.-built magnets, Fermilab will also assemble and ship to CERN 18 similar but shorter magnets designed and built at KEK laboratory in Japan.
At a celebration at Fermilab marking the shipment of the first magnet from
the laboratory to CERN, Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of DOE's Office of
Science, praised Fermilab staff members for their achievement.
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From U.S. Newswire, May 10, 2004 Science.gov 2.0 to be Launched on May 11 Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham will launch Science.gov 2.0, the next major step in government science information retrieval, at a ceremony tomorrow.
Science.gov 2.0 offers groundbreaking, user-friendly technology enhancements to the interagency science portal. While retaining the content and advances originally unveiled in December 2002, now Version 2.0 will search 47 million pages of government R&D results across 12 federal science agencies and present the result to the patron in relevancy ranked order. The new technology sorts through the government's vast reservoirs of research and rapidly returns information to desktops in an order more likely to meet patrons' needs.
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Good Morning!
The ability to build these demanding magnets for the LHC is a measure of the excellent superconducting magnet team at Fermilab. This expertise makes it possible to design the superconducting magnets needed for the BTeV interaction region. Doing the BTeV magnet project will in turn continue to develop the strong group needed to design successful magnets for the LHC luminosity upgrade. In a different perspective, the US-LHC project serves as an example of a successful international, multilaboratory collaboration in building accelerators. Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are our partners in the U.S. project, and we are working closely with both KEK and CERN in building the interaction region for the demanding LHC environment. Such collaboration will be critical to future projects across the world of particle physics, including new accelerators here.
Last week I wrote in this space about the steps we are taking to establish the LHC Physics Center here at Fermilab. Fermilab's leadership on the accelerator project also helps to make it possible for particle physicists working in the U.S. to take full part in the LHC physics program.
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May 7-May 10 - The Accelerator ran well over the weekend. - MI power supply problems on Monday put a damper on the next Tevatron store.
View the current accelerator update |
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Scottish Country Dancing Scottish Country Dancing will be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, at the Geneva American Legion Post. Newcomers are always welcome. Info at 630-584-0825 or 630-840-8194 or folkdance@fnal.gov. |
