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Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| Monday, August 29 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. All Experimenters' Meeting - Curia II Special Topic: New Optics for the Tevatron Note: Particle Astrophysics Seminars will resume in the Fall Tuesday, August 30 |
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| Monday, August 29 -Wisconsin Cheese Soup -Corned Beef Reuben -Stuffed Chicken Breast -Shepherd's Pie -Turkey Craisins Wrap -Meat Lovers Pizza -Pacific Rim Rice Bowl The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1. |
| Wednesday, August
31 Lunch Grilled Duck Salad with Green Beans Pear Almond Strudel Thursday, September
1 Chez Leon
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| On the Job With:
The Particle Physics Division's Design and Drafting Group
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| In 1969, the Village Crier published a
cartoon (above) representing different views of drafters, from the
original Design and Drafting Departments. The newspaper was
Fermilab's original news source, and the cartoon was an amusing way
to thank the designers and drafters who worked at the lab. Many
things have changed for this department over the years, but the hard
work of the design and drafting teams here at Fermilab remains the
same.
The first recorded drawing done at the lab was in 1967 at the Oak Brook office. It is currently estimated that the PPD/Mechanical Department alone has 100,000 drawings located on files. Originally, drafters used drawing boards, pencils and erasers to complete all of their designs by hand. "If you were good, you were an artist," said PPD Design and Drafting Supervisor Chuck Grozis. "Now, due to computers and increasing technology, the work of the group has changed dramatically." In many ways, the responsibilities of the group have diversified, and now include a broader range of tasks. "There are so many projects that we get involved in now," added Grozis. "Division lines were more concretely drawn in earlier years, now there is a much greater crossover between groups and more collaboration." This collaboration is essential for many projects, including a
current plan to remove the Chicago Cyclotron magnet from its home in
the New Muon Building. "Just to move it is a massive effort," said
Grozis. "It requires drawings, fixtures, and all of that is designed
by our group." He also travels to Minnesota to work on the Cryogenic
Dark Matter Search (CDMS) project and visits vendors to oversee
complex fabrications for the department. "We have a lot of very
talented and experienced drafters and designers," Grozis said. "With
a group average of working for 24 years in the department, the overall
experience in this group is quite dramatic." | ||
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With School Open
Again, Drive With Special Care
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| From
Physorg.com, August 23, 2005 Fermilab's Recycler beams take electron cooling to new heights After 10 years of preparation, a team at Fermilab has achieved
electron cooling at high energy. On 9 July, on the first attempt,
the Electron Cooling Group observed the interaction between an 8 GeV
antiproton beam and an electron beam traveling at the same speed.
Although commissioning will take another couple of months,
accelerator experts have already begun to use the electron-cooling
system to reduce the size of antiproton beams prior to their
injection into the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. Ultimately,
they hope that electron cooling will increase the collider's
luminosity by 50-100%. From FYI: Science Policy News, August
26, 2005 A survey of the class of 2003 in physics departments around the
country shows continued large increases in the number of
undergraduate physics degrees produced, a "remarkably rapid rise" in
the number of U.S. students starting physics graduate school, and,
for the first time in almost a decade, an increase in the number of
physics PhDs awarded. Information from this survey, conducted by the
American Institute of Physics's Statistical Research Center, has
been compiled in the "Enrollments and Degrees Report, 2003."
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| West Nile Virus
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| Even though this has been an extremely
dry summer, and mosquito numbers have been down, the threat of West
Nile Virus is still with us. The picture above shows a mosquito
trap, like several located around the Fermilab site, that captures
mosquitoes for testing. Recently, we recorded the first instance of
a mosquito testing positive for the virus at Fermilab.
So far in 2005, there have been 28 cases of human West Nile Virus infection in Illinois. Most of the cases have been in Chicago, but DuPage County has recorded one, and Kane County two so far. Last year in Illinois, there were 60 human cases of West Nile disease resulting in four deaths. In 2003, 54 human cases led to one death. Illinois reported the most human cases in the nation at 884 in 2002 when 67 people died from the disease. Animals can become infected as well. So far this year, the state has recorded positive tests for 139 birds, 1,125 mosquito samples, one horse, and one llama, from 33 of the state's 102 counties. Persons older than 50 are at most risk for the disease and are advised to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites. The disease is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes which pick it up by feeding on infected birds, it is believed. The best way to protect ourselves against West Nile Virus is to prevent the mosquitoes by:
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| August 24 - August 26 - During the 48 hour period operations established one store that combined with an existing store provided the experiments with 42 hours and 22 minutes of luminosity - Electron cooling down for Pelletron repairs - NuMI HV101 troubles due to LCW leak Read the
Current Accelerator Update |
| Open Enrollment for the Life Insurance Plan The open enrollment period ends on Monday, September 12, 2005. The open enrollment form must be in by 5:00 P.M on September 12, 2005. You can access further information on the web. Power Outage Fermilab Health Fair Upcoming classes: |
