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Tuesday, August 12 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover 8:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. Lepton-Photon Symposium - Auditorium & 1 West THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TUESDAY
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Tuesday, August 12 Broccoli cheese soup Chicken cordon blue $3.75 Fish and chips $3.75 Two jumbo corn dogs $4.75 Roasted veggie wrap $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
 Chance Showers 78º/62º
Extended Forecast |
Secon Level 3 |
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Tevatron Performance Achieves New Records On Sunday, August 10, the peak luminosity record at the Tevatron saw a 10 percent increase, bringing it to 4.9E31 cm-2sec-1. The success coincided with a record number of antiprotons traversing the collider detectors at the energy of 980 GeV. Accelerator experts Doug Moehs and Elvin Harms attributed the latest increase in accelerator performance to a number of changes, including the removal of a diagnostic titanium grid in the beamline between the antiproton accumulator and the Main Injector accelerator. The total integrated luminosity for last week was 6.8 inverse picobarns (pb-1), bringing the fiscal year total to 215.6 pb-1. The FY03 goal is 225 pb-1. |
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International Theme Highlights Opening of Lepton-Photon 2003 |
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Fermilab Director Michael Witherell declared that the longstanding international nature of particle physics
is "the only way to pursue our science," as he welcomed nearly 800 scientists
from around the globe to the opening of
Lepton-Photon 2003
in Wilson Hall's Ramsey Auditorium Monday morning. Peter Rosen of the
U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science reinforced the message, and
drew warm applause, by issuing a welcome on behalf of DOE in seven
languages-English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
The opening day activities included the presentation of the N. N. Bogolubov Award from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia to Yoichiro Nambu, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, of the Department. of Physics at the University of Chicago and the Enrico Fermi Institute.
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News
August 11, 2003 ITER is Focus of Fusion Advisory Committee Meeting
The multi-national collaboration to build the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and the project's impact on the domestic fusion program, was a main topic of discussion at a July 31 - August 1 meeting of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. As at a recent High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) meeting (see FYI #102), other major topics included the need to develop program performance measures and the need for a consistent set of criteria, spanning all fields of science, for building large-scale facilities.
From the Daily Herald The Warrenville City Council hosted an informal discussion Sunday with community leaders to explain why the city is involved with plans for the STAR (Suburban Transit Access Route) Line.
STAR is a proposed rail system devised by Metra, RTA and Pace to move residents from suburb to suburb and to O'Hare International Airport. Plans for the system are contingent on federal funding, which local officials will seek this fall.
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Good Morning!
Here at Fermilab we are doing research at several of the frontiers of particle
physics. The greatest interest from our field is, of course, on the Tevatron
collider program. Yesterday afternoon at about 5 pm, I was in the Main Control
Room as they injected an antiproton-proton store with record luminosity,
an average of about 4.9E31 cm-2 s-1, about twice the best done a year ago. For the fiscal year just finishing, we will have collected about 240 pb-1, compared to about 100 pb-1, the best year of Run I. The experiments are running very efficiently, analyzing the data, and producing new physics results. The talks on Tevatron physics at this conference mark the start of the torrent of new physics results from CDF and D0 that will continue for the next several years.
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- Tevatron store #2887 set new record for initial luminosity. -Tevatron also suffered two quenches, high losses, and RF problems. - Operations established three stores during the last seventy-two hours. They delivered approximately twenty-eight hours and fifteen minutes of luminosity to the experiments. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Fermilab Science Demonstrations at the Field Museum On Wednesday, August 13 from noon to 4:00 p.m., Fermilab physicists will give science demonstrations on electricity, magnetism, particle detection and acceleration in the entrance hallway of the Field Museum. The demonstrations will be appropriate for all ages. This event is a public outreach activity for the Lepton Photon conference. For more information, contact Ben Kilminster or Herman White.
Butterfly Walk
"Extreme Computing: The Data Grid and the Future of Distributed Computing"
Bowlers Wanted for the 2003-2004 Bowling Season
Scottish Country Dancing
"Too Much Caffeine" |
