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Tuesday, December 9 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: N. Eddy, University of Illinois Title: Track Triggers in Run II CDF Trigger System
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Beams Division Renamed
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News from the Users Executive Committee
A number of other people also presented at the UEC meeting.
Leslie Groer, of DZero and a UEC member,
reported on a meeting at BNL on
Visa Issues. Elliot McCrory, of the Beams Division, presented a phenomenological model
of Tevatron Operations. Jean Slaughter, of the Beams Division,
talked to us about how
experimenters can help improve accelerator performance.
Judy Jackson, of Public Affairs, talked about
Fermilab publications and Interactions.org, a new international web site for HEP communications.
The full minutes of the meeting are available online.
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From the Interactions News Wire, December 8, 2003 LC Steering Committee Issues Charge to Technology Recommendation Panel The International Linear Collider Steering Committee has published the charge to the International Technology Recommendation Panel appointed by the International Committee for Future Accelerators. The Panel, whose 12 members were announced on November 20, is charged with recommending which of two leading accelerating technologies will form the best choice for a future international linear collider. A technology decision is required in order to commence an international design for the future accelerator. read more |
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From Physics News Update, December 3, 2003 The Top Physics Stories of 2003 The first three on our list concern the sharpening of our understanding of the big bang era, evidence for new quark groupings, and progress in manipulating quantum gases. At the largest size scale, new observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), the Sloan Digital Survey and other telescopes have reduced the uncertainties in the values of such cosmic parameters as the Hubble constant, the age of the universe, and the fractions of total energy vested in the form of dark and luminous matter (PNU #624; 659). read more |
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What happens after such an event? A large number of people from around the Accelerator Division (formerly known as the Beams Division) devise a plan to accomplish the repair quickly and carefully and to make best use of the unscheduled shutdown. Accelerator experts conduct an investigation into the series of events to understand how to prevent this particular incident but also to see whether one can abort the beam in a more controlled way when something like this occurs. All of the AD departments and the running experiments turn in work lists for maintenance and repair jobs that require beam to be off. The operations department decides which work to do this week to take best advantage of the unscheduled shutdown. Later in the week, accelerator studies will be done in the unaffected tunnels, getting work done that would otherwise require a pause in accelerator operations later. Meanwhile, progress continues in other parts of the accelerator complex. Experts tuning the Booster were able to improve the proton intensities for collider operation and for MiniBoone to the levels achieved before the major changes made during the annual shutdown. Tuning of the Antiproton Source restored a good rate for collecting antiprotons. Some of those antiprotons were successfully transferred to the Recycler and stored there with excellent lifetime, confirming the good news about the results of the massive amount of work done on the Recycler during the ten-week shutdown.
We are losing a week of operations this week, something that happens a
few times per year. The accelerator experts will be improving performance
in the weeks to come as they convert their improved understanding of the
accelerators into higher luminosity and steadier operation.
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December 5 - December 8 - Switchyard received permission to receive beam. - The Tevatron suffered a sixteen-house quench. - Related cryogenic problems shuts down the Tevatron for a week to ten days. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Form W-4 Have you purchased, sold or refinanced your home, married, divorced, or had a new addition to the family? These are just some of the reasons why you may wish to provide payroll with a new W-4 exemptions form for 2004. These forms are available in the Payroll Department, or at the IRS web site; or go to the Business Services - Accounting Web page and use the Federal Forms Link. |
