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Friday, March 11 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: J. Olsen, Princeton University Title: The Other Angles: Measurements of a and g at BaBar
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Friday, March 11 Beef Pepper Pot Soup Buffalo chicken wings $4.75 Cajun Breaded Catfish $3.75 Spaghetti with Meat Sauce $3.75 Honey Mustard Ham & Swiss Panini $4.75 Cheesey Breadsticks $2.25 Carved Turkey $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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Chicago's NBC5 will feature a segment about Batavia and Fermilab
on Monday, March 14 in between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. NBC5's
Ellee Pai Hong visited Fermilab last week to get material for the
segment. Unless breaking news occurs, the segment will run on Monday morning
on Channel 5.
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Machine Shop Improves Safety, Efficiency
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As a result of a recent injury to a Machine Shop employee, and the ensuing
investigation, the Technical Division recently banned the use of the
"Set B - Standard Deburring Kit" in all Technical Division machine shops
at Fermilab. Business Services and the Technical Division also placed
a moratorium on the Fermilab Stockroom deburring tool (Set B - kit),
stock #1246-096000.
During the accident investigation, the Technical Division learned from several
employees that the standard deburring tool kit blades often broke while removing
sizable burrs from large holes or from harder materials. "We in the
Technical Division not only wanted to understand the root-cause of these injuries,
but we also want to find ways to help prevent such an injury in the future,"
said Romesh Sood of the Technical Division.
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From the Cornell Chronicle, March 10, 2005 Three of Hans Bethe's friends and colleagues relate fond memories Hans Bethe was a collective mentor to Cornell's Department of Physics. Among his friends and colleagues in the department were David Mermin, the Horace White Professor of Physics; Saul Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics, and chair of the department; and Kurt Gottfried, professor of physics, emeritus, whose third-floor Newman Lab office was for many years just down the hall from Bethe's. Here they recount anecdotes about the humanity and humor for which Bethe is warmly remembered.
A little over two years ago I received a phone call from Rose Bethe asking if I would be willing to interview Hans on the early history of solid state physics and his role in its development, with the resulting videotape to be shown at the March 2003 meeting of the American Physical Society. My field of physics for much of my career has been in solid state theory. Hans, though, said goodbye to the field in 1933, lured into nuclear physics by the discovery of the neutron.
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A Fermilab experiment that began as an attempt to detect CP violation has made an observation that may signify major advances in physicists' knowledge of supersymmetry. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters and a presentation at Fermilab by HyangKyu Park of the University of Michigan, the HyperCP experiment at Fermilab (E871)--a collaboration of 33 physicists and 10 institutions--reports that it has found evidence for the rare decay of a Sigma-plus hyperon into a proton and two muons. This decay is allowed according to the Standard Model of particles and interactions. However, the properties of the three decay events recorded by the HyperCP collaboration may imply that this decay proceeds through a neutral intermediate state, which--if it exists--would be consistent with a supersymmetric particle called a sgoldstino.
"If this is confirmed, every type of high energy physics will be affected," said Park. "A new physics model would change everything, and although we have investigated several possibilities for what the intermediate particle could be, it seems to fit with the framework of supersymmetric model."
By observing the decay of the Sigma-plus (made from a strange quark and two up quarks) into a proton and two muons, the HyperCP physicists measured the smallest-ever branching ratio of a baryon decay. The mass distribution of the two muons was much narrower (1 MeV difference) than what the Standard Model predicts (40 MeV difference, or between 210-250 MeV), creating a buzz among experimenters at Fermilab. The dimuon's narrow mass distribution range suggests an intermediate particle state between the transition from the Sigma-plus to the two muons, which could be the sgoldstino. If the intermediate state exists, its mass would be 214.3 MeV, published in the HyperCP paper on January 21.
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Result of the Week Archive |
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Yesterday's announcement of the Employee Art Show gave a wrong email address for Georgia Schwender. Please resend your email to georgia@fnal.gov. The deadline for submissions was yesterday.
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Volunteer Translators Needed for Education Materials In celebration of the World Year of Physics the Fermilab Education Office is looking for volunteers to translate a few of our resources. After polling teachers internationally, we have selected some physical science and physics materials at the middle and high school levels. With assistance, we can share these activities in some of the major world languages. If you would like to volunteer, Susan Dahl at sdahl@fnal.gov or x3094 Please include what materials and what language you are able to translate. more information
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