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| Speaker Hastert to speak at Fermilab contract signing | ||
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Wednesday, November 1, 8:40 a.m. Ramsey Auditorium. All are welcome. On Wednesday, November 1, the Department of Energy will announce its selection of a contractor to operate Fermilab. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert will attend the announcement ceremony. Under Secretary for Science, Dr. Raymond Orbach, will represent the Department of Energy. All Fermilab employees are warmly encouraged to attend. "This will be an important moment in the life of the laboratory," said Fermilab Director Pier Oddone. "I hope that as many members of the Fermilab community as possible will join us on Wednesday morning."
The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 1, from 8:45 to 9:15 in
Ramsey Auditorium. Employees are asked to take their seats by 8:40 a.m. at
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| WZ boson discovery inches Fermilab closer to Higgs | ||
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Yesterday, at a special seminar, CDF announced first observation of WZ boson production, an important step toward finding the Higgs boson. Elliot Lipeles, a UCSD post doctoral researcher, presented the lecture. The finding shows the Tevatron's increasing sensitivity to small collision cross sections. As Tevatron experiments measure ever smaller cross sections, Fermilab inches closer to finding the Higgs. "We are advancing in sensitivity rapidly, and it's exciting times," said Lipeles, concluding his talk.
In June 2006, DZero announced evidence for WZ production, but did not have enough data to announce a discovery. CDF's lecture yesterday, based on inverse femtobarn of data, featured 16 events, each containing a W and Z boson, with a predicted background of 2.7 events.
CDF's findings support Standard Model predictions: the WZ production cross section was measured at 5.0 (+1.8 -1.6) picobarns, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 3.7 (+/- 0.3) picobarns. "It's not new physics," said Rob Roser, CDF co-spokesperson, "but it shows that the Standard Model is holding up very well so far."
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The Economist, October 26, 2006: Bubbling up A new experiment to test the role of cosmic rays in global warming SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL, an 18th-century astronomer, is credited with being the first person to notice the effect of variations in the sun's activity on the Earth. In 1801 he observed that when the sun had many spots on its surface, the price of wheat fell-a connection he attributed to the weather being more temperate. Over the next 200 years scientists tried, without much success, to understand exactly how these transient sunspots might affect the climate. Now an experiment has begun that could explain what is going on.
The Earth is continually bombarded by streams of particles that come from outside the solar system. These cosmic rays, as they are called, consist mostly of protons. They strike the gases of the Earth's atmosphere at great speeds, creating showers of debris including streams of electron-like particles called muons. An international team of physicists led by Jasper Kirkby, who works at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, has devised an experiment to find out how this process might affect the climate.
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| Fermilab prepares to launch ILC Citizens Task Force | ||
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Earlier this fall, Fermilab instituted a Community Envoy Program to create and maintain meaningful relationships with people in the surrounding communities. After a training session on September 5, Fermilab matched 28 employees with key stakeholders, such as state representatives and homeowners associations, to provide information about the lab's projects, scientific goals and promising future. Last week, Fermilab's envoys reconvened to share progress reports on their first meetings with their stakeholders and to discuss future plans for launching an International Linear Collider Citizens Task Force.
The Fermilab envoys reported that their contacts responded very positively to the idea of such a program and welcomed the opportunity to learn more about the lab. A number of envoys received questions, and some concerns, regarding the future of Fermilab. "I had to explain that this is not about informing the community that we are going to shut down," explained one envoy. Even though the envoys will keep the community informed about all of the lab's projects, the program also paves a path for starting a dialogue about the ILC--a public participation initiative that applies to all regions involved in the proposed international project. Fermilab's envoys found that the stakeholders had some knowledge about the ILC, resulting in a lot of questions about cost, location, tunnel depth and possible economic impacts. One envoy reported questions about the Superconducting Super Collider, specifically inquiring about whether the ILC would be funded in the same way.
With initial meetings complete, Fermilab's Office of Public Affairs will use the feedback collected from the envoys to select members for an ILC Citizens Task Force, which will convene before the end of this year. From the environmentalist to the local elected official to the student, this task force will bring together a wide spectrum of community leaders to provide input into key aspects of ILC planning and decision-making. Starting in December, the group will meet on a monthly basis for approximately one year. "We are looking for thoughtful, open-minded people, who are interested in the future of the region and willing to provide input," said Judy Jackson, Fermilab's Director of Public Affairs. Fermilab will seek nominations for the ILC Citizens Task Force from area residents and employees later this month. For more information about the ILC Citizens Takes Force, call the Office of Public Affairs at 630-840-3351.
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