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Friday, July 21
3:00 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK (NOTE EARLIER START TIME) - 2nd Flr X-Over
3:30 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar (NOTE TIME and LOCATION) - Auditorium
Speakers: B. Heinemann, University of Liverpool; A. Zieminski, Indiana University
Title: Tevatron Highlights at ICHEP'06

Monday, July 24
PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS WILL RESUME IN THE FALL
3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd floor crossover
4:00 p.m. All Experimenters' Meeting - Curia II

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'Acqua alle Funi' is operative phrase for SciBooNE team
SciBar, one of three major SciBooNE components, arrived at the CDF assembly hall Monday. (Click on image for larger version.)
The expression Acqua Alle Funi, meaning "water on the ropes," is an old Fermilab motto immortalized by a 1978 sculpture in front of Wilson Hall. It celebrates a commoner's bold, clever suggestion to use water to stiffen ropes during the raising of an obelisk near St. Peter's Cathedral in 16th Century Rome, with obvious implications for massive Fermilab projects. The phrase was apropos Monday as the first pieces of SciBooNE, Fermilab's new neutrino detector, were delivered from Japan and lowered into the CDF assembly building. Other pieces followed later in the week.

"We had to think of a lot of clever little ways to make this work," said spokesperson Morgan Wascko, of Imperial College London. The 62-strong SciBooNE team salvaged pieces from old Fermilab experiments and imported other elements from the K2K experiment in Japan, which finished running in early 2005. Hidekazu Tanaka, a Kyoto University post doc who disassembled a K2K detector subsystem (dubbed "SciBar"), is now putting it back together at Fermilab for use in SciBooNE. "It took five people working for about 80 hours to disassemble it in Japan," he said. Reconstruction of the detector, which holds 15,000 neutrino-detecting scintillators, promises to be an even bigger job.

All the components--including those made of salvaged parts at Fermilab--will be assembled along with SciBar in CDF's assembly hall, and tested with cosmic-ray muons before they are permanently installed near the Booster neutrino beam target in MI12 this fall. Results are expected soon after. "SciBooNE will show us neutrino and antineutrino processes never seen before at these energies," said Wascko, "which will be used as input for the upcoming T2K experiment in Japan."
--Siri Steiner

In the News
People's Daily,
July 19, 2006:

China plans to build world's largest telescope

According to China Central Television (CCTV), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China reveals that China will make the world's biggest telescope which will allow it to expand its scope of astronomical observation to the edge of the universe and look for celestial bodies of the first generation. The telescope to be built in Guizhou Province is one of the 12 large-scale scientific projects that China plans to invest 6 billion yuan to build during its 11th Five-Year Plan.

The 12 scientific projects are relating to astronomy, biology, high energy physics and other basic scientific research areas. Construction of spallation neutron sources is the most expensive one of the 12 scientific projects, in which China will spend 1.2 billion yuan. The spallation neutron sources can produce a large number of high-speed neutrons. With these neutrons, scientists are able to get internal properties of substances which scientists cannot grasp by means of regular scientific devices. It will offer a great help to develop high-performance materials. Among these projects, China will build a 4000-ton comprehensive marine research ship and an aerial remote sensing system that can quickly monitor floods, earthquake and other unexpected natural disasters.
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Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop/GDE Meeting
From left: Randy Ruchti, Jim Brau, Herman White, Neil Calder and Ken Olsen participate in one of the exercises during the ILC Communications Workshop, which took place on 18 July.

You are invited to view our photo album from the first days of the Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop 2006. From Joe Lykken presenting the science case for the ILC to Ken Peach delivering a summary of the recently released European Strategy for Particle Physics, yesterday morning's joint-plenary sessions brought both the ALCPG and GDE together. An important goal from the very beginning for GDE Director Barry Barish, he commended the groups for beginning to take down the traditional barriers between the machine and physics and detector elements of the project. "We are getting better," he said. "We are learning how to bring this together and I hope that eventually the barriers will go away. For now, we have to work very consciously to bring them together."

We're also including some photos from Tuesday's ILC Communications Workshop. After several different group exercises, which involved instantaneous voting with digital keypads on the goals, concerns and strategy for ILC communications, it became clear to the 40 attendees what a challenging yet exciting opportunity lies ahead for us. "It is great that we have so many different kinds of communicators, but it does create a challenge," said Judy Jackson. "It is key that we have a strategic communication plan with a goal, a strategy and a list of tactics that we are going to use to carry this out."

View the slideshow and enjoy!

-- ILC Communicators

Photo of the Day
Public Affairs' Dave Mosher caught this summer intern gazing into a drift chamber at CDF. (Click image for larger version.)
Announcements

East entrance to close July 29
On Saturday, July 29, the Batavia Road east entrance to will close for road seal coating and striping. The entrance will be reopened Sunday morning, July 30, at 6:00 a.m. The bicycle path will remain open during this period. More information

English country dancing
English country dancing will meet Sunday, July 30, at 2 p.m. Fermilab's Barn, and will continue to meet during the summer on the last Sunday afternoon of the month. Newcomers are welcome; partners and previous experience are not required. Please contact folkdance@fnal.gov or call 630-584-0825 or 630-840-8194.

The Midsummer Theatre Troupe - Much Ado About Nothing
The Midsummer Theatre Troupe will give free performances of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' this summer. Fermilab employee Bruce Worthel is part of the troupe. You can catch the show at at Knoch Knolls in Naperville on Friday, July 28, at 7 p.m. (bring chairs); Island Park in Geneva on Saturday, July 15, at 6:30 p.m. (bring chairs); and Peg Bond Center Stage in Batavia on Sunday, July 23, at 6 p.m. (bring chairs). For $10.00, you can watch the production at Cantigny Memorial Park in Wheaton on Sunday, July 16. (bring chairs. For ticket information, call 630-260-8164) and Walter Payton's Roundhouse in Aurora on July 18, July 25 and August 1.

Lost Item
Lost Item: A blue lunch pack containing CDs and CD player. Last seen in Fermilab cafeteria around 5pm. If found, please return to Heath O'Connell in the Library, x6017, hoc@fnal.gov.

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