 | Thursday, December 4, 2003 |
|
Thursday, December 4 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: C. Grojean, Saclay Title: How to do Electroweak Physics Without a Higgs 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: J. Norem, Argonne National Laboratory Title: A New Way to Look at RF Breakdown 6:00 p.m. Tevatron University - One West Speaker: Jason Key, University of Chicago Title: Making Molecular Movies with Time-resolved X-ray Crystallography Dinner: Delicious Indian cuisine
Friday, December 5 |
|
Thursday, December 4 Tomato Florentine soup Herb breaded chicken tenders fried golden brown served w/potato wedges and choice of dipping sauce $3.75 Sliced chicken breast in a tomato parmesean cream over penne pasta w/wild mushrooms $3.50 Lean roast beef piled high w/pepperjack and a tangy horseradish mayo $4.75 Buffalo dipped chicken breast sandwich w/melted jack cheese $4.75 Stuffed potato bar w/chili, cheese and all the toppings $4.25 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
 Chance Rain/Snow 38º/30º
Extended Forecast |
Secon Level 3 |
| Fermilab Today is online at: http://www.fnal.gov/today/ Send comments and suggestions to today@fnal.gov Fermilab Today archive Fermilab Today classifieds Subscribe/Unsubscribe to |
|
A Message from NuMI Construction Project Manager Elaine McCluskey | ||
| ||
|
If you enter the lab through Pine Street, you may have noticed
the progress of the MINOS Service Building construction. In the
next week or so, site work activities at the building will require
removal of the chain link fence that has enclosed the site since 2000.
Civil construction will continue for a few months, and the signs along
the bike path that say “KEEP OUT” will remain. No access is allowed in this
area without NuMI construction office authorization. The building is locked
when construction activities are not occurring. Walking
in the construction area around the building is prohibited until
the NuMI Project takes beneficial occupancy of the facility,
which will probably happen in February.
|
|
All Those Students! | ||
| ||
|
If you tried to eat lunch in Fermilab's cafeteria yesterday, you probably had
a hard time finding a table. Nancy Lanning, of the Education Office, reported
that over 130 students visited the lab yesterday. The Education Office hosted
116 students from the Sandwich Middle School and 38 students from the Momence
High School. "The students were very excited about their visit and really enjoyed
learning about the accelerator and experiments," said Lanning. "They
especially enjoyed meeting three of our scientists - Chuck Brown,
Roger Dixon and Martin Mulders." Lanning added that Mulders' ability to speak
five languages impressed everyone, especially when he humored the students with
a little Dutch. The Fermilab docents also reported that the students
were very well behaved.
|
|
Fermilab Arts Series A Baroque Christmas - Aulos Ensemble with Julianne Baird, December 6 | ||
| ||
|
For a Holiday treat that is a little out of the usual, join us for
A Baroque Christmas with the Aulos Ensemble and special guest
Julianne Baird, soprano. This group has performed annual Christmas
concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that have been called
"one of the most charming musical celebrations of the season in New York."
The program includes music of Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Michel Corrette,
traditional carols such as Greensleeves, and arias from some
of Bach's beloved cantatas.
read more |
FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, December 2, 2003
Congress Approves 5.0% Increase for NSFRunning out of both time and cooperation, House and Senate leaders have combined the remaining FY 2004 unfinished appropriations bills into a massive omnibus funding bill, H.R. 2673. The bill's language and accompanying report (H. Rept. 108-401) are complete. The House is scheduled to pass the bill next week, while the Senate may not take final action until January. Current levels of funding will continue until the bill is signed by President Bush. One of the seven bills rolled into the omnibus funding measure is the VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations bill. read more |
|
Search for Leptoquarks with the DZero Detector | ||||
| ||||
The Standard Model of particle physics has an intriguing symmetry:
All known "matter" particles fall into three generations, each
consisting of an electron like particle, its neutrino and a pair
of quarks.
Experimental limits and symmetry arguments lead to the conclusion that if leptoquarks exist, they would come in three flavors, each interacting only within one of the generations.
At DZero Run II, three complementary analyses have searched for leptoquarks. One analysis searched for pairs of electrons and quark jets; another looked for an electron, neutrino and quark jet; the third looked for pairs of muons and quark jets. So far, no evidence for the existence of leptoquarks is observed. Therefore, DZero physicists calculated upper limits on the production rate of leptoquarks and derived lower limits on their masses (see above plots). | ||||
| ||||
|
December 1 - December 3 - The integrated luminosity for last week was 3.3 pb-1. - TeV experts work on quench-at-abort problems - Booster achieves it first 5E12 pulse of beam View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
|
Tevatron University Lecture Tonight The next Tevatron University lecture will be on Thursday, December 4 at 6:00 p.m. in One West. Jason Key of the University of Chicago will present "Making Molecular Movies with Time-resolved X-ray Crystallography." Delicious Indian cuisine will be served before the feature presentation.
Fermilab International Film Society Tomorrow |
