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| Fermilab in for the Long Run | ||
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Cheer for Fermilab employees and friends this Sunday, October 22, as they compete in this year's Chicago Marathon. "Chicago is a wild event," said runner Eugene "JJ" Schmidt of CDF. "To run a race with thousands of people is incredible--you are surrounded." Schmidt is part of the Fermilab running team "U Can Run Too," which will compete in the recreational co-ed division of the Chicago Challenge, a three race series. Sunday's marathon is the last race. The team is currently tied for first place in their division. "If we bring back a trophy," said Schmidt, "it will be a fine thing."
Organizers of the marathon expect 1.5 million spectators. An energetic crowd helps a runner finish the race. "After about the 20th mile mark, it becomes a mental exercise," said Schmidt. "It is nice to have the crowds to feed off their energy."
An informal group of Fermilab runners meets at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to run around the Tevatron ring. Regular runner Steve Mrenna, Computing Division, completed his first marathon last year in Chicago. "It's amazing to see 40,000 people who are as crazy as you are," Mrenna said. He added, "Maybe it's comforting." Mrenna finds the goal of a marathon helpful in his work. "It helps to have challenges," he said. "They keep you sharp and focused."
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| SciBooNE's SciBar detector zipping along at light speed | ||
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Quick-moving experiment SciBooNE is half-way through construction of their main detector, SciBar. The detector's frame, custom designed by Ed Chi, PPD mechanical department, is completed and paneled to be light-tight. In the next step, SciBar subdetector manager Hidekazu Tanaka, Kyoto University, will oversee installation of the 64 scintillator layers. Scintillator material emits light when a charged particle flies through. That light will be picked up by optical fibers and photomultipliers and recorded by the detector's computers. Any outside light will skew results.
For the light-proofing, John Cornele, PPD mechanical technician paneled the detector frame with plywood. "Normally this would be done with metal," said Rick Tesarek, of Fermilab, SciBooNE project head. "But this is less expensive and works just as well. We're giving the tax payers good value for their money."
Work on the paneling began Monday, October 9, and is expected to be completed next week. A live webcam, set up by Visual Media Services, is tracking the project's progress. Java Runtime users can view it at http://vms-webcam01.fnal.gov. Upon completion of the detector, VMS will compile a time-lapse video to show the work from start-to-finish.
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CERN Press Release, October 19: New Experiment to Investigate the Effect of Galactic Cosmic Rays on Clouds and Climate
Geneva, 19 October 2006. A novel experiment, known as CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets), begins taking its first data today with a prototype detector in a particle beam at CERN[1], the world's largest laboratory for particle physics. The goal of the experiment is to investigate the possible influence of galactic cosmic rays on Earth's clouds and climate. This represents the first time a high energy physics accelerator has been used for atmospheric and climate science.
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| Road to the ILC reference design |
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This column is written by Barry Barish, director of the Global Design Effort.
The ILC baseline configuration (BCD) developed last year defined the major parameters and concepts for the ILC. This year, through an orderly change control process, we have evolved that design concept. The next big step is to create a reference design, in which we will define in detail the technical parameters and components that make up each of the subsystems in the ILC baseline. The main linac, for example, is made up of superconducting RF cavities, cryomodules that house the cavities, low level and high level RF, magnets and so on. For each of these sub-elements, we are determining the technical and performance parameters, and itemizing the components in order to make a first estimate of the costs. This process will give us a complete design concept but with only a few engineering drawings. The RDR will provide guidance for our R&D program, motivate industrial studies and be the basis for the engineering design needed to make a project proposal. For the RDR, we have deferred consideration of those potential changes that will require significant engineering or industrial studies to evaluate.
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