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Wednesday, August 6 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover 4:00 pm Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: A. Burgasser, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Cloudy with a Chance of Iron: Weather on Brown Dwarfs
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Wednesday, August 6 Soup: Chicken Gernelli Roast Pork Loin $4.75 Pasta with Ratatouille and Fresh Herbs $3.75 Smoked Salmon on Sourdough $5.50 Bacon Cheese Burger $4.75 Classic Chef Salad $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Meson Lab Welcomes First Main
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Beam has been sent from the Main Injector to the scallop-roofed, 30-year-old Meson Building, which hosted more than 130 fixed-target experiments before 1999. The transmission marked the first time the Main Injector has been used in fixed-target mode other than for antiproton production.
Last week the Meson Test group of Erik Ramberg, Chuck Brown and colleagues achieved fast-extracted beam of 38 GeV pions and 120 GeV protons to MT6, as reported in Monday's All-Experimenters' Meeting.
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"It's the final step to take full advantage of the Main Injector's capabilities," Ramberg said. "The Main Injector is going to fulfill its promise of supporting a fixed-target program."
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From Physics Today, August 2003 Science Fashions and Scientific Fact Michael Riordan
As an MIT graduate student and postdoc during the 1970s, I took part in a series of experiments that ended up discovering quarks. The leaders of the MIT-SLAC inelastic electron-scattering experiments--Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, and Richard Taylor--shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for this breakthrough, while collaboration members basked in reflected glory at an unforgettable Stockholm reunion.
It's a lot of work to get a line drawn on a map.
For more than 10 years, the cities of West Chicago and Geneva have wrangled over where to place a development boundary between the two municipalities.
Both West Chicago Mayor Michael Fortner and Geneva City Administrator Philip J. Page said the two sides are "making progress." But other insiders are saying the invisible line that now exists soon could be colored in.
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The large white bird with a four-foot wingspan, fishing in Fermilab's ponds, is the Great Egret (Casmerodius albus), a summer visitor to the lab. Physicist and bird expert Peter Kasper said the Great Egret's Illinois status was upgraded from "endangered" to "threatened" in 1994, and then removed from the list. Kasper said the bird has occasionally bred in the heron rookery in the Main Ring, but primarily breeds in big colonies at Lake Renwick to the south and at Crab Tree nature reserve to the north. "Birds from these colonies fly to Fermilab every day to feed and they will stay here all day," Kasper said. "I have seen flocks of 70 or so hanging out at the south end of A.E. Sea in the fall." |
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Power Outages: --Wednesday, August 6: 8:30 am to 4:30 p.m., NS7 service building including NM2, PL17, 17A, 17B --Thursday, August 7: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, NEB (NL8)
NALWO Coffee Morning:
Performance Appraisal Training
Fermilab Softball League
International Folk Dancing
Bible Exploration for Lunch
The topic "Being a Peacemaker" will discussed today, Weds., Aug. 6 at Noon in the Small Dining Room. All are welcome. Additional information at 630-840-3607 or dykhuis@fnal.gov
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