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Wednesday, Sept. 26
Noon
Special Seminar - Curia II
Speaker: Marge Bardeen
Title: As Kids Say, Volunteers Rock! (Seminar on Education Volunteering at Fermilab)
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
THERE WILL BE NO FERMILAB COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
Thursday, Sept. 27
2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II
Speaker: Chiu-Tien Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: The Shape of Light Stops
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK -
2nd Flr X-Over
THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Wednesday, Sept. 26
- Breakfast: breakfast casserole
- Old El Paso lime chicken
- Blackened chicken alfredo
- Traditional turkey dinner
- Smart cuisine: Beef bourguignon
- Chicken cordon bleu sandwich
- Turkey bacon Swiss panini
- Meat lovers' calzone
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Wednesday, Sept. 26
Lunch
- Crab cakes w/ Cajun aioli
- Lemon orzo
- Sautéed tri-color peppers
- Sour cream pound cake with raspberry sauce
Friday, Sept. 28
Dinner
Closed
Chez Leon Menu
Call x3524 to make your reservation.
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DOE advances US ATLAS, US CMS detector upgrade plans
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The Department of Energy has given its first stage of approval for plans for the United States to participate in detector upgrades at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo: CERN
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The US Department of Energy recently expressed support for continued US involvement in work on the CMS and ATLAS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider.
On Sept. 18, DOE gave their first stage of approval, Critical Decision-0, to plans for the United States to participate in upgrades to both detectors scheduled to be completed by 2018. DOE gives CD-0 approval to projects that meet their mission need and that are judged to have worthy scientific goals.
"This is a big vote of confidence in the LHC program from the US," says Fermilab physicist Joel Butler, the operations program manager for US CMS. "With CD-0, DOE acknowledges that upgrading the detectors is part of [DOE's] mission."
Reaching the next step of the DOE approval process will require the teams to submit detailed reports with estimated costs and schedules for fabrication of detector components and labor. US CMS and US ATLAS will submit proposals for the upgrade project to another funding agency, the National Science Foundation, by the end of 2012. If both DOE and NSF approve the project, a joint group will oversee management.
"Now we need to work to fit our goals into a funding profile that makes sense," says Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist Howard Gordon, former US ATLAS deputy operations program manager. "There has to be tight coordination on this from DOE, NSF and our own groups."
The LHC has two planned long accelerator shutdowns coming up: one next year and the other in 2018. The United States will install upgrades and improvements to the detectors during these shutdowns.
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—Ashley WennersHerron
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Big Bangers, Fermilab Softball League champions
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Congratulations to the Big Bangers, this season's Fermilab Softball League champions. Kudos go to all the league's teams for an excellent season: Big Bangers, Boomers, Final Force, Lightning Rods and Prairie Fire. Photo: David Hockin, ES&H
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LPNHE-Paris
NAME:
LPNHE-Paris
HOME TOWN:
Paris, France
COLLABORATING AT FERMILAB SINCE:
1998
WORLDWIDE PARTICLE PHYSICS COLLABORATIONS:
ATLAS (CERN), Auger, BaBar (SLAC), DZero, HESS (CERN), ILC, LHCb (CERN), LSST, SCP (LBNL), T2K (J-PARC)
NUMBER OF SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS INVOLVED:
Six faculty, five postdocs, five students
PARTICLE PHYSICS RESEARCH FOCUS:
Higgs physics at DZero and cosmic-ray research at the Auger experiment
WHAT SETS PARTICLE PHYSICS AT LPNHE-PARIS APART?
The program at LPNHE-Paris fosters strong interactions between accelerator particle physics, neutrino physics and astroparticle and experimental cosmology.
FUNDING AGENCIES:
CNRS/IN2P3
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Jefferson Lab prepares for new era of exploration
From DOE Pulse, Sept. 24, 2012
Hollywood's finest tradition is to follow up a smash hit with a much-anticipated sequel, and so it will be with the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab and its Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). On May 18, CEBAF shut down after a long and highly successful 17-year run, during which scientists completed more than 175 experiments in the exploration of the nature of matter. The sequel will feature a return of CEBAF with double the energy and a host of other enhancements designed to delve even deeper into the structure of matter.
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Omission in Director's Corner
In yesterday's Director's Corner on the Dark Energy Survey and the installation of the first NOvA detector block, we accidentally omitted publishing the opening paragraph of the column.
The omitted first paragraph reads:
Over the last couple of weeks we have had two notable successes: achieving "first light" with the camera for the Dark Energy Survey and erecting the first block of the NOvA detector at Ash River, Minn. These major milestones would not have been possible without the hard work of many of our dedicated employees. Kudos to all of you!
Read the entire Director's Corner.
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Aligning future accelerators
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Vladimir Shiltsev
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Vladimir Shiltsev, director of the Accelerator Physics Center, wrote this column.
Two weeks ago, Fermilab hosted the International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment. The IWAA is the workshop to attend to learn what is happening in the world of accelerators, since all modern accelerators need precise alignment.
This was the 12th meeting since the series started about 20 years ago, and I have participated in or contributed papers to almost all of them since the beginning. Robert Ruland chaired the first IWAA in 1989 at SLAC, and like so many other participants, he has become a good friend of mine. This year Horst Friedsam, head of the Fermilab Alignment Group, chaired the committee that organized the workshop. Horst and I have worked together since the early 1990s when he was working on the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne and when I was conducting research for the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas.
Precise alignment of accelerator components was of great importance for the Tevatron and will be critical for the next generation of colliders as well as for Fermilab's future experiments, such as LBNE, Mu2e, the Muon Collider and Project X.
During the four-day workshop, participants discussed a broad range of issues, including how to build super-stable slabs for the motion-sensitive components of third-generation light sources in Europe; the role that precise alignment of accelerator components played in the successful startup of the first X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC; the significant progress that has been made in understanding stabilization and alignment of the proposed CLIC linear collider at CERN; and the effects that changes in the soil properties had on the KEK B-factory after the Fukushima earthquake. Fermilab's Jim Volk reported seeing day-long earth vibration modes in the water-level detector data from the systems he installed in Fermilab's MINOS hall after that devastating quake, as well as at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D.
It was a very fruitful meeting of experts in accelerator alignment. I am sure we will consult many of them as we are working on Fermilab's near-, medium- and long-term accelerator projects.
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ES&H weekly report, Sept. 25
This week's safety report, compiled by the Fermilab ES&H section, contains no incidents.
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