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Thursday, August 14 THERE WILL BE NO THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY 8:45 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Lepton-Photon Symposium - Auditorium & 1 West
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Thursday, August 14 Vegetable beef barley Stuffed sole $4.75 Spaghetti and meatballs w/garlic bread $3.50 Turkey and ham combo $4.75 Southwest breaded shrimp $4.75 Chicken and tuna salad over fresh greens $3.75 Sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Official Startup of MINOS Far Detector In July, after four years of mining and construction, workers finished building the first of two detectors of the ambitious MINOS particle physics experiment. Today, after completing the hardware and testing the detector's systems, scientists announced the official startup of data-taking with the MINOS far detector, ahead of the scheduled completion in April 2004. Physicists will use the MINOS detector, located deep in an historic iron mine in northern Minnesota, to explore the phenomenon of neutrino mass. "This is an important milestone in the worldwide quest to develop neutrino science," said Ray Orbach, director of DOE's Office of Science. "The MINOS detector in Soudan, Minnesota, together with the new Fermilab neutrino beam line, will provide a detailed look at the secrets behind neutrino oscillations. It will complement the large-scale neutrino projects in Japan, Canada and Europe. Significantly, the completion of the detector comes nine months ahead of schedule." Press release and photos |
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American Institute of Physics Inside Science News Service August 11, 2003 U.S. tops International Physics Olympiad College Park, MD (August 11, 2003)--Representatives of the U.S. Physics Team placed first out of 54 countries at the 34th annual International Physics Olympiad in Taipei, Taiwan, sweeping the competition with five medals and four special prizes yesterday for their knowledge of topics such as special relativity and properties of laser diodes. This is the first time a U.S. student has taken the top honor since 1989, and the first time in the competition's history that the U.S. team has been the top-ranking country. read more |
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KEK Press Release, August 13, 2003 Indication of New Physics from the Belle Experiment |
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The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) announced that the Belle collaboration, an international research team working at the KEKB accelerator, found evidence for a new phenomenon that cannot be explained by the Standard Model of elementary particles.
The KEKB accelerator is a device for generating a large number of very shortlived subatomic particles called B mesons as well as their anti-matter counterparts. These particles, each with a mass somewhat greater than that of the helium atom, disintegrate after about a few trillionths of a second into lighter and more long-lived daughters, and these decay products are detected by the Belle detector.
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- Tevatron suffered multiple quenches. - Operators established one stores during the last forty-eight hours. - They delivered approximately ten hours and fifteen minutes of luminosity to the experiments. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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"Extreme Computing: The Data Grid and the Future of Distributed Computing" Free Public Lecture, Thursday, August 14, 7:30 p.m., Ramsey Auditorium, Fermilab. Reservations required: Call 630-840-8720 to reserve free tickets more information
Book Signing-August 14
International Folk Dancing
Tuesday Golf League at Fox Valley Golf Course
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