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Wednesday, November 12 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: A. Linde, Stanford University Title: Inflation, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
Thursday, November 13 |
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Wednesday, November 12 Corn chowder St. Louis style ribs slow cooked and falling off the bone $4.75 Elbow pasta tossed w/cheddar cheese, topped w/bread crumbs and baked till golden $3.50 Lean roast beef piled high w/pepper jack cheese and ranch dressing on fresh baked tomato foccacia $4.75 Golden brown catfish filet poboy w/cheddar cheese $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Press Release, November 12, 2003 Quest Begins to Unmask Dark Matter-and Perhaps Supersymmetry | ||
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Using detectors chilled to near absolute zero, from a vantage point half a mile below ground, physicists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search today (November 12) announced the launch of a quest that could lead to solving two mysteries that may turn out to be one and the same: the identity of the dark matter that pervades the universe, and the existence of supersymmetric particles predicted by particle physics theory. Scientists of CDMS II, an experiment managed by the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory hope to discover WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, the leading candidates for the constituents of dark matter-which may be identical to neutralinos, undiscovered particles predicted by the theory of supersymmetry.
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25 Fermilab Employees Receive 30-Year Service Awards | ||
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On Tuesday, November 11, Employee Relations honored 25 Fermilab employees
with 30-Year Service Awards. Associate Director Bruce Chrisman hosted
the luncheon for the honorees at Chez Leon.
The honorees in alphabetical order: |
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From University of Chicago Magazine, October 2003 If not the Higgs, then what? The headlines held an air of defeat: “Smallest Particles Are the Biggest Challenge,” lamented the Chicago Sun-Times; “No Sign of the Higgs Boson,” cried New Scientist; “Below-par Performance Hampers Fermilab Quest for Higgs Boson,” sighed Nature. Although Fermilab began its quest for the Higgs—the subatomic particle that, in theory, gives other particles mass—in 2001, recent estimates show that the world’s most powerful accelerator won’t be able to squeeze out enough collisions to find or disprove the boson’s existence. At least six years’ worth of collisions were needed, at a rate of 5 million collisions per second, running 24 hours a day, every day of the year—factoring in downtime for repairs. In July Fermilab told the Department of Energy, which owns the lab, that the 20-year-old Tevatron accelerator is showing its age, and downtimes are stretching longer than previously expected. read more |
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MIPP Collaborators Celebrate End of Preparation, Start of Data Taking Last Friday afternoon, approximately 50 experimenters from Fermilab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and 11 other institutions gathered to celebrate the start of the next phase of the Main Injector Particle Production experiment. From a Fermilab staff member who worked on the early designs for the MIPP experimental layout to the graduate students awaiting their first overnight shifts, all shared their excitement about the coming months. After almost three years of construction and preparation, MIPP will take its first data when the Tevatron resumes operations in mid-November.
The experiment will measure the identity, energy and angles of all particles emitted from the collisions of protons, pions and kaons with a wide variety of targets.
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Fermilab 2003 Employee Communications Survey Last chance to fill out your employee communications survey! By now, every Fermilab employee should have received the 2003 Employee Communications Survey in their email from the NIU Public Opinion Lab. The survey only takes about 15 minutes to complete online. If you haven't filled out your survey yet, please complete it soon.
Health 4 the Holidays Program
Bible Exploration for Lunch
Fermilab Singers
International Folk Dancing |
