Fermilab Today

Archive: May 2011

Wellness Feature of the Month: June wellness, fitness, pool information, and discounts
CMS Result: Tempest in a pinpoint
Photo of the Day: New employees - May 23-24
From NPR, May 26, 2011: Chu hopes kids will encourage families to go green
From TIME, May 25, 2011: The great cosmic-ray sniffer reaches orbit, on the hunt for dark matter

TIPP 2011 to discuss new tech breaking physics barriers
Result of the Week: Gluon spin
Ryan Patterson receives prestigious DOE award
In Brief: Civil union partner benefit coverage
Correction: Pixel detector initially built for CMS
National Science Foundation press release, May 20, 2011: Just four percent of galaxies have neighbors like the Milky Way

Soudan laboratory is clean, safe and back in business
From the Technical Division: Challenging magnets
Pixel detector to assist beam collimation experiments
Photo of the Day: New employees - May 16
From ars technica, May 20, 2011: Ars photo tour: the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab

Annual Users' Meeting offers new results, peek into future
Director's Corner: Users' Meeting 2011
Aran Garcia-Bellido receives prestigious DOE award
Fermilab Press Release: National laboratories offer computing time to Japanese physicists in wake of earthquake
From CERN: The Bulletin, May 23, 2011: Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider - How are discoveries made?
From The New York Times, May 21, 2011: Atom-smasher retires; lab makes career switch

Fermilab-affiliated researchers receive prestigious DOE award
ES&H Tip of the Week— Health: Measles on the rise get a booster
Photo of the Day: These go to 11 – new inverse femtobarn record
Correction: Short-baseline neutrino workshop
From FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, May 20, 2011: Representatives supporting “robust and sustained funding” for DOE Office of Science

Museum outreach event to expose kids to science careers
Special Result of the Week: SciBooNE and MiniBooNE inspect the neutrino pie
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
Photo of the Day: Walking for wellness
From Chicago Tribune, May 19, 2011: Willard S. Boyle dies at 86; a father of the digital camera
From Science Insider, May 19, 2011: Chu calls NSF's decision to abandon DUSEL 'disappointing'

Recent results, future plans focus of neutrino workshop
Result of the Week: The Tevatron’s top saga
Milestone: Death - Patrick Hughes
Readers write: Thank you for your support
In Brief: Relocation survey
From PhysicsWorld.com, May 12, 2011: Cosmic rays mapped across the southern sky

From KEK: DG's Corner: Damage caused by the recent earthquake and recovery prospects
Director's Corner: An LHC discussion
Video of the Day: Endeavour launch lifts search for dark matter, antimatter to new heights
From symmetry breaking, May 13, 2011: New movie with far-fetched “Big Bang” scenario released

Muon collider challenges will be discussed at conference
ES&H Tip of the Week: Computer security: How to avoid getting reeled in during phishing season
Photo of the Day: New employee - May 9
From The Space Review, May 16, 2011: The space station’s billion-dollar physics experiment
From @brookhaven TODAY, May 13, 2011: In Memoriam: Maurice Goldhaber, former Brookhaven National Laboratory director

Stay safe when working with electricity
Result of the Week: Looking for the W-prime
Photo of the Day: First baby bison of the year born at Fermilab
From International Business Times, May 12, 2011: 'Superflares' spotted in Crab Nebula by NASA's Fermi

INSPIRE updates a classic
From the Accelerator Division: Central Helium Liquefier keeps it cool
Photo of the Day: Hawk orders pigeon for dinner
From Scientific American, May 6, 2011: WIMP wars: Astronomers and physicists remain skeptical of long-standing dark matter claims
From Nature News, May 10, 2011: The collider that cried 'Higgs'

Milestone: Tevatron smashes old luminosity records
Director's Corner: CAS 101
Special Announcement: DOE 2011 strategic plan release at noon today
In Brief— Beware: Pop-up ads could be phishing scams
From Daily Reporter, May 9, 2011: Nobel laureate says science investment critical to nation's economy, future
From Discovery News, May 9, 2011: Particle physics can help fight cancer

Honoring public servants
From Quantum Diaries, May 5, 2011: Particle detectors don’t like the light
From ILC Newsline, May 5, 2011: Impersonating bulk niobium
Photo of the Day: Birds of prey
From New Scientist,, May 3, 2011: Fleeting antimatter trapped for a quarter of an hour

Budget update: Message from Fermilab Director Pier Oddone
Result of the Week: Impossible, except...
The Project X chopper challenge
Special Announcement: Secretary Chu to give public lecture at Fermilab on June 2
From symmetry breaking, May 3, 2011: Keep it simple, SUSY
From PhysicsCentral Buzz Blog, April 30, 2011: Hinting at dark matter

Pier Oddone elected to National Academy of Sciences
From FESS: The importance of maintenance
Special Announcement: Physics for Everyone talk on muons - 12:30 p.m. today
Photo of the Day: Snake surprise
From Quantum Diaries, April 28, 2011: A QuarkNet particle detector sets sail for IceCube

Special Announcement: Plant a tree today in honor of Arbor Day
Director's Corner: APS “April Meeting”
From Quantum Diaries: Mu2e: A little background (the nasty kind)
Special Announcement: Physics for Everyone talk on muons - 12:30 p.m. May 4
Special Announcement: Bicycle seminar - noon today
From Kane County Chronicle, May 1, 2011: Lagattolla: Applause, enthusiasm for Skilling in Batavia