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Friday, December 17 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: T. Han, University of Wisconsin Title: Smoking Gun Signatures for Little Higgs Models at Hadron Colliders
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Friday, December 17 Beef Pepper Pot Buffalo Chicken Wings $4.75 Cajun Breaded Catfish $3.75 Spaghetti with Meat Sauce $3.75 Honey Mustard Ham & Swiss Panini $4.75 Double Stuffed Pizza $3.25 |
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Fermilab and Berkeley Lab Collaborate with Meyer Tool on Key Component for European Particle Accelerator | ||
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Officials at Fermilab and Berkeley Lab
announced on Wednesday the completion of a key component of the U.S.
contribution to the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator under
construction at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. After a competitive
bid process, Berkeley Lab awarded Meyer Tool and Manufacturing,
a woman-owned small business in Oak Lawn, Illinois, the contract
to manufacture eight cryogenic distribution boxes, components of the
cooling system for the new accelerator, which is due to begin operating
in 2007. Meyer Tool has successfully completed the first box.
"Meyer Tool has an excellent working relationship with Fermilab and Berkeley Lab," said Bruce Strauss, U.S. LHC Accelerator Program Manager in the DOE's Office of High Energy Physics, who visited Meyer Tool yesterday morning to celebrate the completion of the first box. "Since its inception, Fermilab has always supported and utilized the great number of machine shops and small manufacturing businesses that are in the Chicago area. Because of the success that we are seeing today, we have confidence that Meyer will deliver the remainder of the boxes on schedule and on budget."
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From the Nebraska News, December 15, 2004 Discover Magazine Cites Work Of UNL Scientists Findings of two research projects involving University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists were named among the 100 most important discoveries and developments in science in 2004 by Discover magazine. Each year, Discover selects the 100 top science stories of the year to feature in its Year in Science issue. Global warming topped the 2004 list, which is featured in the January 2005 issue. Research involving UNL physicists Greg Snow and Dan Claes and agronomist Ken Cassman made the list. "This is terrific news," said Prem Paul, the university's vice chancellor for research. "Having research our scientists are involved with listed among the year's top 100 discoveries by a major science magazine is indicative of the high quality of our research efforts."
Snow and Claes were part of an international team at Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago that established the mass of the
top quark, a discovery that ranked as Discover's No. 57 story.
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MINOS Magnet Passes Test | ||
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The MINOS collaboration has taken one of the last hurdles to make the MINOS near
detector operational. On December 10, Fermilab employees switched on the
powerful magnetic coil winding through the core of the detector. At the
end of the 15-minute test, a current of 5,000 amps flowed through the total
of nine loops. Each loop includes a 65-foot section that goes straight
through all 281 planes of the near detector and a 65-foot section outside
the detector that returns the current, delivering it to the next loop.
"This was an important event both for the scientists and the safety people," said project manager Cat James. "The coil is well insulated against electric shocks, but the residual magnetic field outside the detector is a safety hazard
Fermilab engineer Jim Kilmer designed the coil and supervised the fabrication by a contractor. Walter Jaskierny worked on the power supply, a non-trivial task. The installation of the coil took place a couple of months ago, carried out by Leon Beverly and his crew. Getting the solid, 65-foot coil pieces underground required advance planning. "Five years ago we had to design both the ceiling crown surrounding the bottom of the MINOS shaft, and the sump trench below the shaft, such that we could bring these long pieces underground," said Cat James. "The coil ended up being the last thing to go in." At present, the MINOS collaboration is calibrating the near detector. "We have recorded more than five million cosmic ray events," said MINOS physicist Peter Shanahan. | ||
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