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Thursday, September 30
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Thursday, September 30 Tomato Florentine Grilled Chicken Cordon Bleu Sandwich $4.75 Chimichangas $3.75 Chicken Marsala $3.75 Maryland Crab Salad $3.75 Italian Sausages Calzones $3.25 SW Chicken Salad with Roasted Corn Salsa $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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So Long, George Zielbauer George Zielbauer will be retiring today after 35 years at Fermilab. Over the years he has worked as a designer in various departments such as: the Proton Department, Main Ring and the Beam Division. For the past 12 years he has worked
"Working at Fermilab over the last 35 years is like being at a college campus. It has always been interesting, exciting and fun. I will definitely miss Fermilab and my colleagues the most," said Zielbauer.
A father of 4 children and grandfather of 2, Zielbauer looks forward to spending
time with his family and pursuing various interests. As one of the founders of
the Aurora Kickers soccer team in 1959, soccer has always been a part of his life.
In addition to traveling to Europe, Zielbauer will continue to be a soccer coach
for Aurora and Naperville teams after he retires.
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2004 Co-Ed Softball League Championship Finals | ||
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The Co-ed Softball League championship finals were last week. The 2004 championship
team is Final Force. D-Zero Nuts came in second; Isotopes placed third; Euro
Trash placed fourth and Boomers placed fifth.
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From the Daily Herald, September 28, 2004 Batavia, Fermilab may team up by Gala M. Pierce Batavia officials are searching for a way to keep electricity costs down while maintaining reliability for residents after the city's contract with ComEd expires in 2007. Since the proposed 138,000-volt power towers along Randall Road were shot down, leaders have looked to the east.
For several months, Batavia and Fermilab representatives have discussed sharing
property and electrical substations as a way to secure low-cost and reliable
electric power through 2021.
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From the Daily Herald, September 23, 2004 Scientist enthralled by 'flying flowers' by Sammi King ...Peterson is know as Fermilab's butterfly expert. At the young age of 8, he started hunting for bugs and butterflies, doing what many youngsters do - catch them and put them in a jar with holes punctured in the top. By the time he was 10 he had an entire collection.
"The Elmhurst Library displayed my butterfly collection in the library when I was 10 years old," Peterson said. "I had caught and identified 100 butterflies and moths in the area."
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First Steps Toward Finding the Higgs | ||
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The Higgs boson is the last particle yet to be discovered in the Standard Model
of particle physics. It arises from the Higgs field that is thought to permeate
the universe and to give mass to all other particles. At the Tevatron, we can
search for a Higgs produced in association with a Z boson. The Higgs would decay
immediately into one b anti-b quark pair. However, there are direct ways to produce a
Z b anti-b at the Tevatron without involving a Higgs and these processes present
severe backgrounds to the search for the Higgs.
To imagine how to search for this Higgs signal, suppose you are looking for your friend's car in a huge parking lot. You must distinguish your friend's car from others, which are the backgrounds, based on the car's make, model, year, color, and so on. The features of the background must be as well understood as those of your friend's car. Higgs hunters face a similar problem except we can't always definitely distinguish the difference between our signal events (our friend's car) from similar events (similar cars). What we do instead is count total number of events (or cars) matching our description and compare them to the number we'd expect. Likewise, observing Z+b production and measuring its rate are crucial. DZero has made the first measurement of Z+b production in a hadron collider environment. This was done by comparing the number of events with Z+b to the number of events with a Z and other quarks. This is an exciting measurement and an important first step in looking for the Higgs this way. | ||
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Power Outage News Cancellations The following scheduled power outages have been cancelled: October 5, 6, and 7 for Meson areas MS1, 2, 3, MDB, MS6 and 7. The October 8 power outage has also been cancelled for the following Meson substations: ML5, 12, & 14, and for the Meson Cryo Central building. Transfer Gallery Scheduled Power Outage on October 2: Feeder 43 work will begin at 7:00 AM and end around 3:00 PM on Saturday; no power to the Transfer Gallery for up to seven and a half hours, but probably less
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