Thursday, March 3
2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II
Speaker: V. Cirigliano, California Institute of Technology
Title: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lepton Flavor Violation
3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND
TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
Friday, March 4
THERE WILL BE NO DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK TODAY
THERE WILL BE NO JOINT EXPERIMENTAL THEORETICAL PHYSICS
SEMINAR THIS WEEK
2:15 p.m. NuMI/MINOS Dedication Ceremony - Ramsey Auditorium
3:30 p.m. Lab-Wide Party - Atrium
8:00 p.m. Fermilab Internation Film Society - Auditorium
Tickets: Adults $4
Title: Det Sjunde Insglet (The Seventh Seal)
Saturday, March 5
8:00 p.m. Fermilab Arts Series - Auditorium
Tickets: $18/$9
Title: Dervish
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Thursday, March 3
Minnesota Wild Rice with Chicken Soup
Tuna Melt on Nine Grain $4.75
Breaded Veal with Mushroom Cream Sauce $3.75
Sweet & Sour Pork over Rice $3.75
BLT Ranch Wrap $4.75
Double Stuffed Pizza $3.25
Chicken Pecan Salad $4.75
The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and
American Express at Cash Register #1.
Wilson Hall Cafe Menu
Chez Leon
will reopen starting Wednesday, March 2. Call x4512 to make your
reservation.
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Employees, Users and Contractors
Invited to Attend NuMI/MINOS Dedication on Friday
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MINOS Near Detector (Photo: Peter Ginter) (Click on image for larger version.) |
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Fermilab employees, users and contractors are invited to attend
the dedication ceremony for
the NuMI/MINOS experiment in Ramsey Auditorium at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, March 4.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and DOE Office of Science Director Ray Orbach
will formally launch NuMI/MINOS.
A lab-wide party, sponsored by the URA,
will be held in the Atrium from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., following the Auditorium
ceremonies.
Portions of Ramsey Auditorium will be reserved for MINOS collaborators, NuMI
project staff, and special guests that include congressional staffers, DOE
officials, members of the press and other VIPs. Invitations have already been
sent via email to the people who will have reserved seats in the auditorium.
Ushers will be on hand to direct people to their seats. Overflow seating
will be available only after the auditorium is completely full.
All attendees should be seated in Ramsey Auditorium by 2:15 p.m. A slide
show on the history of the project, produced by Visual Media Services with the
assistance of Cat James,
will begin at that time. Employees are strongly encouraged to car-pool from
other areas of the site, as parking will be at a premium. The Horseshoe
will be completely reserved for participants in the ceremony. Additional
parking will be available at the Lederman Science Center.
- Elizabeth Clements
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From PhysOrg, March 1, 2005
Fermilab experiment to beam neutrinos through Dairyland
In an effort to pin down the elusive nature and qualities of one of nature's most intriguing subatomic particles - the neutrino - scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Illinois will soon send a beam of the ghostlike particles coursing through subterranean Wisconsin to a detector deep in a mine in northern Minnesota. The goal of the $170 million project is to help scientists gain some accurate measurements of a particle that has practically no heft.
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Friday: Have Lunch with the Office of Science Director
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Dr. Raymond
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Dr. Raymond Orbach invites Fermilab and DOE employees to stop by
to talk with him during lunch in the cafeteria on Friday. Dr. Orbach
will help to dedicate the NuMI/MINOS project on Friday afternoon.
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Muons Mark the Top Quark at CDF
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Observation of top-antitop production, appearing as an excess of events over
other known processes. The excess appears in events with one W boson and three
or more jets-- one of which contains a muon-- a characteristic signature of
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Thirty five miles west of Chicago two detectors with the
cryptic names CDF and DZero attract hundreds of scientists
while recording the highest energy collisions on Earth. In
the heart of Chicago a building known as the John Hancock
Center attracts scores of tourists with its elegant
appearance. Both unique masterpieces, they have one
unmistakable difference: the skyscraper is massively bigger,
and much taller, than the detectors.
Mass is a familiar concept in everyday life, but oddly it is
one of the least understood properties in particle physics.
Matter in the universe appears to be made up of fundamental
building blocks called quarks and leptons, but the origin of
the masses of the building blocks remains a mystery.
Therefore the top quark, more than forty times heavier than
any other quark or lepton, could be playing a special yet
unknown role in physics. Highly unstable, top quarks decay
into one W boson (the particle carrier of the weak nuclear
force) and one b-quark. The b will bind with other quarks
leading to a jet of particles, and the identification of
these rapidly escaping b's is the key to detecting top quarks.
The CDF Collaboration now measures the production rate, or
cross section, of top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron by using
a technique that spots b's by looking for muons in jets. A
number of b's in fact will undergo a semileptonic decay, a
type of decay which often leads to the production of a muon.
Counting the number of events containing one W along with
muons in jets, in excess of those expected from background
sources, yields a determination of the top production
probability. The result, a cross section of 5.2+/-2.7 pb,
gives physicists at CDF yet one more tool to test the
properties of top quarks, the skyscrapers of all elementary
particles.
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The CDF top quark muon taggers. Left to right: Tony
Liss, Lucio Cerrito, Anyes Taffard, Greg Veramendi and Ulysses Grundler (not
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Result of the Week Archive
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Bodman Testifies on Budget
Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman will testify before the Senate Energy
and Natural Resources Committee Thursday, March 3 at 10 a.m. (Eastern time)
regarding the Department of Energy's FY 2006 budget request.
Streaming audio is available online.
Cafeteria Closing Early on Friday
The Wilson Hall Cafe will close at 1:00 p.m. on Friday in
preparation for the lab-wide party, which will be from 3:30 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m. in the Atrium.
Fermilab Employee Art Show
The deadline to submit an intent application for the
Fermilab Employee Art Show is March 10. Artwork must be
submitted to the the gallery on April 4 and April 5.
The Artist Reception for the show will be on April 20
from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Employees will pick up their
artwork on June 1 and June 2. Contact Georgia Schwender
for more information. An application is available to
download online.
Fermilab Film Series
The Fermilab Film Series will present
Seventh Seal on Friday, March 4 at 8:00 p.m. in
Ramsey Auditorium.
more information
Fermilab Arts Series
The Fermilab Arts Series will present "Dervish" on Saturday, March 5 at 8:00 p.m.
in Ramsey Auditorium.
more information
Upcoming Activities
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