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Thursday, May 27 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: R. Gandhi, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India Title: Atmospheric Neutrino Physics Possibilities Using a Large-Mass Iron Calorimeter 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, May 27 Santa Fe Black Bean soup Marinara Meatball Sub $4.75 Butter Crumb Baked Fish $4.75 Pork Chop Teriyaki $3.75 Baked Ham & Swiss on a Ciabatta Roll $4.75 Sausage & Sweet Onion Strombolis $2.75 Crispy Fried Chicken Ranch Salad $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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New Perspectives from Graduate Students
Posters will be on display in the Atrium of Wilson Hall for both days, with a wine and cheese reception from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. on June 3. The three best posters will be awarded prizes, which will be presented in remembrance of George Michail. Talks will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on June 4 in Curia II. The poster prize-winners will be announced at the end of the day, before the conference comes to a close with a barbecue at the Kuhn Barn at 6:00 p.m.
If you are a graduate student who would like to present at New Perspectives,
there is still time to submit an abstract for a talk or a poster by
emailing gsa_officers@fnal.gov
this week. More information about the
conference and a form for free registration
is available online.
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Electrical Safety Month Profiles In connection with Electrical Safety Month, Fermilab Today offers a series of profiles recognizing Electrical Coordinators at Fermilab. This is the final article in the series. Electrical Safety Manager Leon Beverly Leon Beverly has been supervising electricians at Fermilab for 35 years. He began his career at the lab on May 20, 1968 as a linac technician, and supervised electricians for the first time in 1969 when the installation of equipment started in the brand-new linac building. Since then he has worked on electrical engineering design and installation for many experiments in
"Safety and your work go hand-in-hand; you can't separate one from the other," said Beverly. "People have always been responsible for their own safety. What's changed is the level of daily safety awareness. With all the training programs available now and the adoption of Integrated Safety Management, there is a lot more awareness of safety protocols."
In his 36 years at Fermilab, Beverly has served several times on the
electrical safety subcommittee and once on the subcontractor safety
subcommittee. He has also participated in the electrical portions of
operational readiness reviews for multiple experiments, including KTeV and
DZero Run I.
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May 24 - May 26 - Operations established one store during this period of time that, added to an existing store, provided approximately 31 hours and 14 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - The TeV set a new record with an initial luminosity of 68.92E30 - The Recycler resumes stashing antiprotons
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From ScienceNews, May 22, 2004 Dark Doings Ever since 1998, Robert Caldwell has been obsessed with something dark and repulsive. He spends nearly every waking moment trying to comprehend a mysterious entity that may be undermining gravity and pulling everything apart, making the universe expand at a faster and faster rate. This presumed force, sometimes called dark energy, might ultimately rip apart every object in the cosmos, from the tiniest of atoms to gargantuan clusters of galaxies. "It's both fascinating and terrifying," says Caldwell, a cosmologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. read more |
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DZero Swings Right in Top Quark Analysis | ||||
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The observation of the top quark in 1995 at CDF and DZero opened new ways
of probing subtleties of the Standard Model. Although the predictions
of the Standard Model have thus far had remarkable success, new
interactions are expected to appear near Tevatron energies.
With the top quark being the heaviest of all elementary particles,
it has been argued that its interactions might offer first
experimental evidence for the limitations of the theory.
Looking for any right-handed helicity in such W bosons is a way to find deviations from theory. In a new analysis, similar to that developed for measuring properties of the top quark (especially its mass - see Fermilab Today, January 15, 2004), DZero has shown that its approach is viable. Although the extracted value of the helicity is still imprecise, with more data from Run II, a significant test of the standard model will be forthcoming. In the meantime, DZero is delighted that this new method will provide an excellent way of making this important measurement. | ||||
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Result of the Week Archive
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Alvin: The Symposium 6/1
"We're using Alvin's 80th birthday as a way to honor him and all
the good things he's done for the lab," said Fermilab physicist
Peter Limon.
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Weekly Time Sheets Due May 28 Weekly Time Sheets for the week ending May 30th are due in Payroll by 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 28, 2004
Hadron Collider Physics 2004
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