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Thursday, November 6 Noon Wellness Works Brown Bag Seminar - 1 West Speaker: S. Osman (Ethnic Hand Drummer) Title: Hand Drumming: Balance, Precision and Creativity 1:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar (NOTE TIME) - Curia II Speaker: B. Lillie, Stanford University Title: Large Yukawa Hierarchies from Extra Dimensions 3:00 p.m. Fermilab Long Range Planning Committee Open Session: "Non-Particle" Physics - 1 West * Motivation and Boundaries for "Non-Particle" Physics Projects (J. Butler) * A Possible Medical Accelerator Facility Near Fermilab (A. Lennox) * Possible Computing Initiatives (R. Tschirhart) * Non HEP Uses of HEP Instrumentation (D. Christian) * Research with Low Energy Accelerators (C. Johnstone) * Radiation Physics R&D (K. Vaziri) THERE WILL BE NO DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK TODAY THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Thursday, November 6 Lentil soup Inside round of beef carved to order $4.75 Linguine w/meatballs simmering in a hearty marinara sauce $3.50 Roasted turkey and pepperjack cheese w/a sundried tomato mayo on herb focacia $4.75 Philly steak w/grilled peppers and onions topped w/melted Swiss on a French roll $4.75 Hand rolled hanabi sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Feynman Computing Center Installs Two New Uninterruptible Power Supplies
"Bad stuff" includes equipment damage, expensive downtime from physics processing, and loss of network connectivity. Fermilab suffers several power outages a year, and the UPS system provides the FCC's computers with a constant supply of electricity until the backup generator kicks in. According to Gerald Bellendir, Associate Head of Computer Facility Operations, the computers "never notice-they don't miss a cycle." Jed Brown, Associate Director of Operations, points out that the service is "vital to the lab. This is where users come from all over the world to get data."
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November 3 - November 5 - Tevatron cold by Tuesday morning - Operations given permission to power the TeV - Accelerator Status View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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From Honolulu Advertiser, November 5, 2003 UH gets $35 million to join hunt for elusive neutrino By Beverly Creamer The University of Hawai'i has landed a $35 million, five-year grant from NASA to capture ultra-high frequency neutrinos in the Antarctic ice sheet with the hope of better understanding the origins of the universe.
It's the largest single grant awarded to the Department of Physics and Astronomy — and likely the largest ever won by the university as a whole.
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CDF reports new new measurement of pomeron production ratio | ||
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A collision between a proton and an antiproton at the Tevatron looks like a fireworks explosion producing close to a hundred different particles flying in all directions. However, at the Tevatron there is sometimes a large angular region relative to the antiproton beam direction that is empty of particles. Such patterns are thought to be caused by an antiproton emitting a "pomeron" which collides with the proton to produce a lop-sided explosion. In technical jargon, an event of this type is called "single-diffractive" and the region devoid of particles a "pseudo-rapidity gap." Events in which two pomerons are emitted (one each from the antiproton and the proton) and then collide, produce patterns with two forward rapidity gaps due to "double pomeron exchange."
The pomeron is presumed to be a nugget of energy consisting of quarks and gluons, the same stuff the proton is made of, but in a state with the properties (quantum numbers) of the vacuum. It is this feature that allows the proton to remain intact when it emits a pomeron, while it invariably breaks up when it emits a quark or a gluon. Studies of pomeron exchange events may therefore lead to better understanding
CDF reports a measurement of the ratio of production rates of double pomeron exchange to single diffractive events. The ratio is found to be about five times larger than expectations based on straightforward extrapolations from one-gap to two-gap rates, but in good agreement with recent predictions that provide a unified description of several results on diffraction obtained by CDF and other experiments. | ||
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Brown Bag Seminar Today Hand Drumming- Balance, Precision, and Creativity An accomplished performer, ethnic hand drummer Suzanne Osman, who has delighted audiences with her energetic displays, will present today's Brown Bag Seminar at noon in One West. Join this inspirational event and learn of the health benefits that hand drumming can offer.
NALWO Indian Music & Dance Program
Fermilab Annual Blood Drive |
