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Last Plane Installed in MINOS Near Detector | ||
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Crew members installed the last of 281 detector planes in the
MINOS Near Detector on Wednesday. "We installed the first 3.5 ton plane in
April," said Cat James, who oversaw
the development of the installation system used to build the 980 ton detector
330 feet below Pine Street. "Next we install the coil that magnetizes the detector,
which will take 5-6 weeks." In the meantime, work continues on exercising the
detector's readout electronics. Technicians, undergraduates, grad-students,
post-docs, and faculty all worked together during plane installation to commission
the scintillator planes with their attendant electronics and data acquisition
systems. Until beam is delivered cosmic ray events are used to test the
detector's electronics. Near Detector Operations Manager Peter Shanahan is
grateful to all the collaborators who helped with the installation. "Everyone's
contributions were crucial."
The NuMI beamline will be ready for testing and commissioning shortly after the upcoming accelerator shutdown. The beamline has many components, and the commissioning plan calls for several weeks of testing and measurements on the way to routine high intensity operations.
The goal of the experiment, which shoots neutrinos 735 km through the earth
to a second detector in the Soudan iron mine in northern Minnesota, is to
better understand the phenomena of neutrino oscillations.
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FESS Completes Work on the Reflecting Pond | ||
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Earlier this week, FESS completed its work on the Reflecting Pond in front
of Wilson Hall. Steve Shirley of FESS reported that they successfully
replaced the fire hydrant. FESS employees also took advantage of the low
water levels in the Reflecting Pond and conducted some repair work on the
Hyperbolic Obelisk sculpture that stands at the foot of the pond. "The base of
the sculpture had rusted because the majority of it is underwater," Shirley said.
"That combined with all of the elements of our weather take quite a toll on the
sculpture. FESS sanded, primed and painted the sculpture to create longevity
in the metal." FESS started refilling the pond mid-day on Wednesday. It took
almost 20 hours to bring the pond back up to its normal water level.
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From SpaceRef, August 10, 2004 David Schramm Award to Writer Oliver Morton for Article on High-energy Neutrinos Oliver Morton wins the fourth edition of the David N. Schramm award for an article describing the appeal and pitfalls of high-energy neutrino science. The article "Moonshine and Glue" was published in the spring 2004 issue of "The American Scholar". The David N. Schramm award is offered by the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society. The author will receive the $1,500 cash prize and travel expenses to the HEAD scientific meeting in New Orleans (Louisiana) at the beginning of September. He will also be presented a plaque and, for the publisher of the article, a certificate honoring his work.
"Moonshine and Glue" describes the difficulties of hunting for high-energy
neutrinos. It tackles the science in a thorough but clear way. The article
also conveys magnificently the nature of scientific endeavor.
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What's Up with the Linear Collider? The tenth in a series of Fermilab Today stories on the International Linear Collider. The entire series is available online. Victoria Conference Highlights Fermilab Presentations | ||
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Fermilab scientists and Guest Scientists had a substantial presence in the
Victoria Linear Collider Workshop,
offering 16 presentations at the conference of the American Linear Collider
Physics Group held in Victoria, British Columbia from July 28 to July 31. Their
presentations covered topics in International Linear Collider theory, detector
physics and technology, and accelerator physics and technology.
"Around November of last year, we decided that we would get involved in ILC accelerator physics along with LC accelerator technology," said Shekhar Mishra, Head of Fermilab's ILC efforts. "We had not been working in ILC accelerator physics, but now I feel we are being recognized for our contributions by the worldwide ILC accelerator community. I think all our talks in accelerator physics were well-received." Also in November 2003, Fermilab suggested that a large system test (or Engineering Test Facility) should be considered to establish confidence in design, performance, cost and schedule of the proposed ILC before it is built. The scope of such a large system test would be determined by the Global Design Initiative established by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee. Mishra reported that a panel discussion on the large system test was held in Victoria, and he termed it "really productive." In all, Fermilab scientists and Guest Scientists offered 8 detector presentations (3 by Gene Fisk), 6 accelerator presentations and 2 theory presentations. The conference was sponsored by the National Sciences and Research Council of Canada; the University of Victoria; TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics; and the Institute of Particle Physics in Canada. A list of the Fermilab presentations at Victoria is available online. | ||
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