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Friday, June 23
Monday, June 26 Announcement: Heartland Blood Centers will be here for the Fermilab Blood Drive on June 27 and 28, from 8:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. in the Wilson Hall Ground Floor NE Training Room. Appointments can be scheduled on the web or by calling Diana at x3771. Click here for a full calendar with links to additional information. |
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Friday, June 23 -Old Fashioned Ham & Bean -Black & Blue Cheese Burger -Summer Herb Cod -Stuffed Manicotti -Roasted Veggie & Provolone Panini -Assorted Pizza Slice -Vegetarian Stir Fry The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express. |
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To super-cool 1,000 magnets and zip two beams of particles near the speed of light, Fermilab's Tevatron uses 12.2 megawatts of power--enough to power 61,000 personal computers. But when the beams reach their maximum speeds, the particles only possess the energy of two jelly doughnuts, said Mike Syphers of the Accelerator Division on Tuesday.
As part of an ongoing lecture series for the Summer Internships in Science and Technology (SIST) program, Syphers helped interns get up to speed on particle accelerators. From basic physics to the development of the first cyclotron in 1931, he left few stones unturned--including the doughnut-level energy of each proton and antiproton beam in the Tevatron. "It really doesn't sound like a lot, but try eating two jelly doughnuts in 21 microseconds," Syphers said. "When you do the math, the energy in each beam is about 400 dietary calories." In other words, the energy stored in the beams could boil two and one half gallons of room-temperature water instantly. Some other fun facts presented during the lecture:
Upcoming SIST lectures and a PDF version of Syphers' lecture can be found here.
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MINOS Near Hall wasn't built in a day. In fact, it took 180 people digging for twenty months to just make the cavern. Last Thursday, a group of civil engineers who specialize in underground excavations came to see the 350-foot-deep Hall and learn about how it was made.
After a series of short lectures about the ILC, Fermilab physics, neutrinos and NSF's proposed DUSEL lab, the engineers were given a tour of the detector hall at MINOS. Chris Laughton, the Fermilab civil construction manager on the MINOS project, outlined the methods, challenges and solutions involved in the excavation. "When you think of physics you think of white lab coats and everything has to be perfectly clean and air tight. It's nice to see an example of good, cost-efficient engineering," said Michael Crow after his tour of MINOS. The lecture on the ILC outlined the immense difficulties involved in mining two parallel tunnels, roughly six meters wide and thirty-five-kilometers long. (So long that engineers need to account for the curvature of the earth in their plans.) "They're really going to be pushing the threshold of underground excavations," said Crow.
After the tour, the group ate lunch and got back on the bus to return to Chicago. "It's trips like this that remind you why you became a civil engineer. It's great to see your work being used for something, and when people start talking about quarks and muons...it's just great to see," said Crow.
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Research News, June 21, 2006 Berkeley Lab's Saul Perlmutter Wins Shaw Prize in Astronomy BERKELEY, CA - Saul Perlmutter, a member of the Physics Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, leader of the international Supernova Cosmology Project, and principal investigator of the SuperNova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) project, has won the Shaw Prize in Astronomy for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Perlmutter shares the $1 million prize with Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and Brian Schmidt of Australia's Mount Stromlo Observatory. The presentation ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, in Hong Kong.
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June 21 - 22 - One store provided two minutes of luminosity - Booster chopper problems - D0 access completed - Store 4787 quenched Read the Current Accelerator Update Read the Early Bird Report View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts
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Blood Drive June 27, 28 Heartland Blood Centers will be here for the Fermilab Blood Drive on June 27 and 28, from 8:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. in the Wilson Hall Ground Floor NE Training Room. Appointments can be scheduled on the web or by calling Diana at x3771.
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NALWO Chicago Boat Tour on July 6 New classified ads have been posted on Fermilab Today.
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