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| Records Keep Coming |
| The flurry of Tevatron peak luminosity records of the last couple of months continues. On Monday, October 31, accelerator operators produced a special Halloween treat of 164E30 cm-2 sec-1. Since the beginning of the year, the peak luminosity record has increased by about 50 percent. Congratulations. |
Celebration Honors 20th Anniversary of Collisions |
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On the night of the first Tevatron collisions, Lee Holloway promised his wife he'd take her out after his drive back home to the University of Illinois from Fermilab. He didn't make it to his car until the next day with a signed note from Alvin Tollestrup and others in the CDF collaboration explaining why he had to spend the night. Holloway's memory was one of many shared Thursday afternoon in Wilson Hall during a special session of the CDF collaboration meeting to honor the 20th anniversary of the collisions.
Mel Shochet, who was in the control room during the collisions, presented the audience with old minutes of weekly CDF meetings to show humorous accounts of limited money and accommodations as well as challenges such as the failure of a dipole magnet and lithium lens. "A substantial fraction of the collaboration was actually in the control room and everybody was focusing on one display," Shochet said about the first collisions, which began at 2 a.m. on October 13, 1985. "When we saw anything, there were oohs and ahhs." CDF spokeswoman Young-Kee Kim displayed 20-year-old pictures of CDF employees as well as those of newer collaboration members, some of whom were children and teenagers at the time.
Robin Staffin, the Associate Director for High Energy Physics for DOE's Office of Science, attended the meeting via phone. "Because of this very different scale of luminosity, our eyes are opening again," he said about the current success of Run II. "This is a reminder that these are not easy accomplishments, they're major accomplishments. They take a great deal of effort as you all know and results don't come quickly either, but they're certainly worth it."
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| From Science Daily, October 29, 2005
On A Collision Course With Discovery In the universe of high-energy physics, the smallest building blocks of matter (or anti-matter) make the biggest news. Take subatomic particles, for instance. Colliding into each other at nearly the speed of light in the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, protons and antiprotons produced some of the biggest physics news of the decade in 1995: the top quark.
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I had the opportunity to present our vision for the future of particle physics and for Fermilab at a lively evening session. I shared the session with Albrecht Wagner, Director of DESY, San Aronson, Associate Director for Particle and Nuclear Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Fumihiko Takasaki, head of the ILC at KEK representing the Director General of KEK Yoji Totsuka. The ILC clearly dominates the landscape for the foreseeable future for all the laboratories. Japan and the US are in a strikingly similar situation since we both have ambitions to host the ILC and cannot launch other initiatives before the fate of the ILC is resolved. I received many positive comments on our roadmap and we all can take encouragement from the support of this diverse group.
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| Computer Security: Learn about Phishing, Pharming |
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Everyone who uses the Internet, either at the Laboratory or at home, should have a basic understanding of phishing and pharming so they can avoid becoming a victim. Read more about phishing. |
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October 28 - 31 - During this 72 hour period, three stores provided 60 hours and 25 minutes of luminosity. - TeV quench, but with no store
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International Folk Dancing
Scottish Country Dancing and Halloween Party
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