Indiana University

Some of the team of IU scientists and technical staff working on a $278 million U.S. Department of Energy neutrino project are, clockwise from left, Stuart Mufson, Luke Corwin, Jon Urheim, Jonathan Paley, Fritz Busch, Bob Armstrong, Mark Messier and Brian Baptista. They are standing beside a prototype component of the liquid scintillator that will be used to collect light from subatomic particle interactions. Photo: Indiana University Office of Communications.

NAME:
Indiana University, Bloomington

HOME TOWN:
Bloomington, IN

MASCOT:
Hoosiers

SCHOOL COLORS:
Cream and crimson

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
ATLAS, DZero, Fermilab Lattice Group, HEAT, HotQCD, ILC, JDEM/IDECS, MILC, MiniBooNE, MINOS, MIPP, NOvA, SciBooNE

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero, ILC, JDEM/IDECS, MiniBooNE, MINOS, MIPP, NOvA

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
13 faculty, 14 scientists/post-docs and 13 students

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1972

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
Muon and central tracking detectors for DZero Run 1 and 2 and leadership of heavy flavor analysis. Lattice QCD studies of spectrum, heavy-light hadrons and high-temperature QCD. On-board calibration for JDEM/ IDECS. MiniBooNE DAQ and charged and neutral-current elastic scattering analyses. Reconstruction, calibration and analysis of MINOS and MIPP. Development of the NOvA proposal and its scintillator and electronics systems. Theory and phenomenology of CPT-violating and other extensions to the Standard Model.

RESEARCH FOCUS:
Heavy flavors, electroweak interactions, QCD, neutrinos, dark energy, cosmic rays, Standard Model extensions.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY APART?
Ours is one of the strongest neutrino groups in the U.S. and we have strengths on all frontiers: energy, intensity, and cosmic. We are a unique collaboration between physics and astronomy, experiment and theory.

FUNDING AGENCY:
Department of Energy and National Science Foundation

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Fermilab

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Extreme Beam lecture Thursday, 4 p.m. in One West

The fourth lecture of the Extreme Beam lecture series will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday in One West. Steve Holmes, Fermilab's Associate Director for Accelerators, will give a talk titled "Project X: A multi-MW Proton Source at Fermilab."

The lecture series, which will feature talks at Fermilab throughout 2009, will give in-depth information about the science and accelerator and detector technologies that will create a world-leading physics program at the Intensity Frontier.

Visit the Extreme Beam Web site for more information.

Shutdown affected by possible FY2011 collider run

The Fermilab shutdown beings June 15. The collider portion of the shutdown, the time with beam turned off to the Tevatron, will be extended nine days from the end of August to the second week of September.

A longer shutdown schedule will allow additional time to prepare the Accelerator Complex to run the Tevatron collider an additional year (through FY 2011) with a minimal interruption. The longer shutdown also allows for cryogenic system repairs to a total of six sectors of the Tevatron that deteriorated recently during the current extended nearly 20 months run.

The schedule for the injector accelerator chain remains unchanged. It will resume operation nine days before the Tevatron starts up.

In the longer term, the Laboratory is looking at one more shutdown after this one, assuming a run through 2011. The Laboratory will try to restrict that shutdown to four weeks.

See the detailed shutdown schedule and regular updates and the multi-year schedule.

DOE Office of Science update: Director, Senatorial support, appropriations schedule, state spending

From AIP FYI, June 9, 2009

New Director of the Office of Science:

The nomination of William Brinkman to be the Director of the Office of Science was sent to the full Senate yesterday after being approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Brinkman appeared before the committee on June 2 with two other nominees. In his remarks, Brinkman described his research and management experience at Bell Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratory and at a research organization. He told the committee "Although the DOE has had many research successes and accomplishments, I believe that we can improve management, and the relationship between headquarters and the laboratories. If confirmed, I will strive to make the management as straightforward and effective as possible, recognizing the difficulty inherent in the unique, cutting edge projects that DOE takes on." His testimony touched on basic research, science education, energy, nonproliferation, and nuclear security.

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