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Friday, August 29 3:30 pm Wine & Cheese - 2nd Floor Crossover THERE WILL BE NO JOINT EXPERIMENTAL-THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR TODAY
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Friday, August 29 Clam chowder Country fried steak $4.75 Chef's choice $3.50 Gourmet sandwich of the day $4.75 Friday grill special $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Muon Collaboration Workshop Brainstorming at Fermilab This Week Almost two dozen scientists from U.S. laboratories and universities met this week for the Muon Collaboration's workshop on Ring Coolers and Emittance Exchange. The collaboration, with more than 200 scientists worldwide, seeks to develop a neutrino factory using muons to create a pure, high intensity neutrino beam for studying neutrino oscillations. But because muons are unstable, decaying within 2.2 millionths of a second, they cannot be cooled the way stable antiprotons are cooled - over several hours. The Muon Collaboration brainstormed ideas on muon cooling technologies using ring coolers and the use of high-pressure hydrogen gas as an absorber. "Ring Coolers have been demonstrated to produce cooling in longitudinal and transverse directions in a muon beam. Many technical problems remain, however. The container holding the hydrogen gas, for example, must withstand a pressure of 300 atmospheres," said Bob Palmer, a Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist. Rajendran Raja of Fermilab said the technology, when developed, would be available for any interested laboratory to use in a neutrino factory. |
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German Choir, Männerchor Dorfen, Visits Fermilab This Afternoon |
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On the afternoon of Friday, August 29, the German choir, Männerchor
Dorfen (Dorfen Men's Choir) will visit Fermilab. Hans Kautsky of
CDF will lead the tour through the 15th floor and the Linac. Männerchor
Dorfen was founded in 1996 and consists of 23 members, ranging in ages
between 19 and 74. The repertoire of the choir includes classic opera
pieces, old German folksongs and songs of the 1920's. The choir is participating in the Sister
City exchange program between Taufkirchen and West Chicago, and it
will be performing over the Labor Day weekend in West Chicago and St. Charles.
For more information about their concert, call Don Smith at 293-9250
or go to Männerchor
Dorfen's webpage. If you happen to see the group on
their tour of Fermilab this afternoon, greet them with "Guten Tag!"
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Lehman Run II Review Panel Submits Report The Department of Energy panel that reviewed Fermilab's Run II plans on July 21 and 22 has submitted its report. The panel, led by DOE's Dan Lehman, made a general assessment of ongoing activities at Fermilab's accelerator complex and considered Fermilab's Run II Luminosity Upgrade Plan. The report presents the panel's findings, comments and recommendations. The next full-scale Lehman Run II review will take place on February 24-26. |
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From The Scientist, August 26, 2003 Streamlining the funding process White House will review how agencies interact with researchers By Ted Agres While scientists certainly enjoy receiving government support for research, ask any one of them about the drawbacks and you're likely to hear grumbling about red tape, bureaucracy, and mountains of paperwork. Now, the White House would like to hear these complaints. And it says it wants to do something about them. read more |
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From Nature, August 28, 2003 Rolf Landua: Hunting antimatter |
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Rolf Landua works on the production of anti-hydrogen atoms at CERN, and hopes to understand better why the Universe contains so little antimatter.
Summarize yourself in the form of a title of a paper in Nature.
What was your first experiment as a child? |
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Power Outage There will be a power outage on Saturday, August 30 from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the New Muon lab.
Things to do at Fermilab on Labor Day Weekend
Third Annual Writing Contest
Upcoming Training Classes
Village Pool Schedule
NALWO: End of Summer Picnic Today |
