Fermilab Today

Archive: July 2011

Fermilab's SiDet Facility aides PHENIX detector upgrade
Milestone: IB3 addition plaque ceremony
Wellness Feature of the Month: August wellness offerings, pool information, fitness classes and discounts
Special Announcement: Siren maintenance - Aug. 1
In Brief: New Fermilab email project to reduce spam
Special Announcement: Exterior and interior window washing - Aug. 1 to Aug. 19
From ILC NewsLine, July 21, 2011: Pushing the limits with high-voltage electron guns

Tevatron experiments close in on Higgs particle
From the ES&H Section: ES&H – It’s everywhere!
ES&H Health Update: Accelerate to a Healthy Lifestyle Program
Photo of the Day: Dark Energy imager complete
Video of the Day: Fermilab receives shout-out on The Colbert Report
Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, July 26
From MSNBC's blog the Cosmic Log, July 25, 2011: Scientists see hope for Higgs hunt

U.S.-India agreement bolsters Project X proposal
Director's Corner: Overview of an important week
Milestone: The Education Office's Nancy Lanning retires after 22 years
In Memoriam: John S. Toll dies at 87; Led Stony Brook University
From Nature News, July 23, 2011: Asymmetric quarks defy standard model of physics

From symmetry breaking: Wealth of particle physics data yields numerous results for EPS conference
CMS Result: Stricter bounds on extra dimensions
Fermilab Press Release: Tevatron experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range
SSVSP Update: SSVSP final steps
Milestone: Former Fermilab Today interns get engaged at RHIC - July 15
From the Inquirer Digital Blog, July 21, 2011: U.S. science is going the way of the shuttle

Fermilab Press Release: Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron
Result of the Week: The charm of high-statistics data samples
From the University of Chicago newsroom, July 19, 2011: Fermilab-University investigators receive $225,000 in collaborative seed grants
Special Announcement: Today is an Air Pollution Action Day
Photo of the Day: Time-lapsed sky over Tevatron
From the Kane County Chronicle, July 21, 2011: Fermilab announces new particle discovery

Special Announcement: Special W&C lecture at 2:30 p.m. today in One West
From the Accelerator Physics Center: News from the Muon Collider 2011 conference
In Brief: Laboratory releases physics advisory committee report
Special Announcement: Today is an Air Pollution Action Day
From the newsroom of Iowa State University, July 15, 2011: Iowa State physicist to test next-generation neutrino detector for major experiment
Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, July 18
Special Announcement: July 21 "Third Thursday" lunchtime clean-up postponed
From Nature News, July 19, 2011: NASA telescopes face budget abyss

In Memoriam: Kuni Kondo
Mosquitoes pose serious risk
From symmetry breaking, July 15, 2011: CERN brings hardware into the open
Photo of the Day: Saturday sunset on the water
From the American Institute of Physics: FYI: The AIP Bullentin of Science Policy News, July 15, 2011: FY 2012 House funding bill: National Science Foundation

From ILC Newsline: How to keep cavities blemish-free
Special Result of the Week: Rare or medium rare?
Photos of the Day: New employees - June 20; New employees - July 5
In the News: Galaxy sized twist in time pulls violating particles back into line

From symmetry breaking: CDF gets first glimpse of legendary rare decay
Result of the Week: A different kind of Higgs boson
Photo of the Day: Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss visits Fermilab
In Brief: Call for applications: URA Visiting Scholars Program
From The Epoch Times, July 12, 2011: Dark energy modeled by supercomputer
From American Physical Society's Physics Central Buzz Blog, July 11, 2011: Neutrinos and antineutrinos might "disappear" differently

NAS Press Release: NRC report: Proposed underground experiments address questions of “paramount importance”
From the Finance Section: Summer is a busy time
Cryomodule Test Facility will help advance SRF technology
From the University of California - Riverside newsroom, July 11, 2011: UC Riverside physicists discover new way to produce antimatter-containing atom
From Nature's News Blog, July 11, 2011: Committee champions underground science

Tevatron shutdown event Friday, Sept. 30
Director's Corner: Various updates
From Quantum Diaries: A particle physics private eye takes on the great interaction caper
Photo of the Day: It’s electrifying
From Energy.gov's Energy Blog, July 11, 2011: Fermi scientists show the split-second decisions of tiny particles add up to a huge difference

New editor for Fermilab Today
The cost of cyber security attacks
From Borneo Post Online, July 8, 2011: Physicist enlightens students on particle physics, astrophysics
From NPR's news blog The two-way, July 5, 2011: Physicists almost certain the universe is not a hologram

Fermilab hosts workshop for elementary school teachers
CMS Result: One at a time
From Energy.gov's Energy blog, July 5, 2011: National Labs open doors to displaced Japanese researchers
From Star City blog, June 2, 2011: Science odyssey: Will US concede particle physics to Europe?

Better communication, processes top EAG successes
Result of the Week: CDF search for new physics using six energy clusters
Special Announcement: Accomplishment reports are due Friday
Photo of the Day: Resting place with a view
From New Scientist, July 5, 2011: Tevatron particles shed light on antimatter mystery

SSVSP deadline Thursday; New Q&As posted
From the Computing Sector: IT improvements are on their way
From symmetry magazine: Eminently noble
From the Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2011: Threatened butterflies leave Chicago nursery for prairie

Butterflies released into Fermilab’s natural areas
Photo of the Day: Butterfly-to-be
From BBC News, July 1, 2011: Antimatter Tevatron mystery gains ground
From Homestake DUSEL and Sanford Laboratory Newsletter, June 2011: Response to the Marx Report