East gate to close 1 to 5 a.m. beginning in November

The turnaround outside the east gate will allow cars to turn around if they arrive between 1 and 5 a.m.

Fermilab's east entrance on Batavia Road will begin closing from 1 to 5 a.m. in November after, construction crews finish a turnaround and sliding gate.

Fermilab Today will announce the exact November date the restricted hours will take effect.

The new operating hours for the east entrance means that all employees and users entering and exiting the site with motor vehicles between 1 and 5 a.m. will need to use the main entrance on Pine Street. The fastest way from the east side of the laboratory to the main gate is by taking Route 59 south and turning right onto Butterfield Road, then right again to Kirk Road, which leads to the main entrance.

Contractor Sam Rapisarda calculates asphalt requirements.

Employees, users and residents of the Fermilab Village will still be allowed to enter and exit the east gate on foot and by bike 24 hours a day using the bike path, said Chuck Morrison of the Fermilab Security Department.

The reduction in operating hours of the east entrance will help to decrease personnel expenses charged to the limited funding available in the Safeguard and Security account for the Fermilab site.

Construction crews have begun work on the new sliding gate and the turnaround area. Crews are also installing additional lighting and signs that will alert drivers to the closure. DOE provided special, one-time Safeguard and Security funding of half a million dollars to pay for the design and construction.

Tim Trout, FESS, who is coordinating construction on the project, said the crews expect to finish the work by the middle of November. Trout does not expect construction to affect traffic during regular business hours, but said lanes will be restricted on two Saturdays — as yet to be determined — while crews install the gate and repaint the steel archway on Batavia Road. Fermilab Today will announce the dates when available.

-- Chris Knight

University of
Nebraska-Lincoln

Clockwise from upper left: Jose Lazo-Flores and Tony Kelly, PSI; Maria Becker, Jason Keller, Ilya Kravchenko, Emily Petermann, Dan Claes, Ken Bloom, Aaron Dominguez and Greg Snow; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kayle DeVaughan, Ioannis Katsanos, Dale Johnston and Mike Eads, Fermilab and DZero; Helena Malbouisson, CERN. Not pictured: Suvadeep Bose, Cameron Bravo, Jamila Butt, Maxwell Gregroire, Sudhir Malik, Dane Oleson, Rob Snihur and Andre Schorlemmer.

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NAME:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

HOME TOWN:
Lincoln, Nebraska

MASCOT:
Athletic teams are Cornhuskers, or usually just Huskers. Herbie Husker and Lil' Red are the on-field mascots

SCHOOL COLORS:
Officially scarlet and cream, but functionally red and red

PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
DZero, CMS, Pierre Auger Observatory, RICE/NARC and CROP (a nationally-recognized education and outreach project)

EXPERIMENTS AT FERMILAB:
DZero, CMS and Pierre Auger

SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS AT FERMILAB:
Seven

COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1993

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
On DZero we are responsible for many aspects of luminosity monitoring, both hardware and software; and have done data analyses on QCD, new phenomena and Higgs searches. On CMS, we host a Tier-2 computing center and helped build the forward pixel detector. We are the lead institution for education and outreach activities on Pierre Auger Observatory.

PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
We have a broad set of interests in both Standard-Model physics (electroweak, top, QCD) and searches for new phenomena (Higgs and SUSY), with a dash of cosmic-ray astrophysics, too. We are excited about the opportunities to discover new physics at the LHC.

WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT YOUR UNIVERSITY APART?
Our particle physics research group is one of the fastest growing in the country, having increased in size from two faculty members to five in the past five years. This has allowed us to position ourselves to play a leadership role in the LHC physics program.

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National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy EPSCoR Program

FAVORITE NATIONAL LABORATORY:
Muppet Labs? No, Fermilab!

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Department of Energy Announces Accelerator Symposium

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