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Thursday, November 20 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: S. Wiesenfeldt, DESY Title: Proton Decay in Consistent Supersymmetric GUTs 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: L. Prost, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Title: The High Current Transport Experiment for Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion
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Thursday, November 20 Wild mushroom bisque Baked ziti w/sweet marinara sauce and melted mozzarella $3.50 Slow roasted pork loin w/carmelized onion pan gravy $4.75 Roasted turkey and creamy brie w/wild greens $4.75 Jack crab quesadilla w/peppers and onions grilled on a flavored tortilla w/melted jack cheese $4.75 Hand rolled Hanabi sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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First NuMI Magnet Installed in Pre-Target Tunnel | ||
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| On Tuesday, November 18, NuMI's Deputy Installation Manager, Rick Ford, announced the safe and successful installation of the first NuMI quadrupole magnet in the pre-target tunnel. "The magnet was lowered down the approximately 150 foot deep target hall shaft and pulled up the 15 percent tunnel slope on a specially designed installation cart using a winch and pulley system," said Ford. "There is a braking system which prevents the magnet and cart from rolling down the wet tunnel floor if the cable releases or breaks for any reason." Mayling Wong, of the Particle Physics Division, did the engineering for the cart and magnet installation, and Mike Mascione, also of the Particle Physics Division, served as task manager for the rigging company. | ||
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November 17 - November 19 - Problem with the Tevatron C2 dump delays studies six hours - Tevatron beam accelerated to flattop - The H- Source suffers from rainfall View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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From WIRED Magazine November 2003 Cosmic Reality Check Surprise! Our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought. By Bruce Sterling Since the days of Galileo's telescope, new and better scientific instruments have steadily transformed our conception of the universe. Now we've got the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. This superb gizmo, launched in June 2001, is floating 1 million miles from Earth in the second Lagrange Point, measuring the density of the universe with unheard-of digital accuracy and sending data back to mission control.
Already, the probe's findings have provided a few salient new notions about the nature of cosmic reality. For starters, the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Unlike previous figures, this is not a rough estimate; the margin of error is about 1 percent. In addition, the universe is flat. Forget all that mind-boggling space-time-is-curved stuff. Euclid was right all along. And the space-time pancake will expand infinitely. There's no such thing as an end to this particular universe.
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The Hunt for Single Top Continues at CDF | ||||||
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The existence of the heaviest known elementary
particle, the top quark, was established in 1995 at
Fermilab. This discovery relied on the pair
production of top quarks. Top quarks
Single top detection is challenging due to the huge backgrounds. The CDF collaboration used an optimized strategy based on artificial neural networks to identify single top events in Run I data. The rate of producing single top quarks is measured to be six
Work is in progress to analyze the larger Run II
CDF datasets accumulated since March 2001, which will
allow experimenters to verify if statistical
fluctuations or other factors are responsible for the
excess measured in Run I data.
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Tevatron University Event Tonight Pushpa Bhat, FNAL, will speak at UTeV tonight at 6:30 p.m. in One West. The topic, "Advanced Multivariate Methods for your Data Analysis," will focus on multidimensional analysis methods from Grid Search to Neural Networks in a variety of approaches and applications. Free dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m.
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