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Thursday, May 5 1:30 p.m. Special Particle Astrophysics Seminar (NOTE DATE, TIME, LOCATION) - One North Speaker: M. Jarvis, University of Pennsylvania Title: Cosmological Constraints from the CTIO Weak Lensing Survey 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: B. Ermolaev, Ioffe Physics Technology Institute Title: Impact of the Total Resummation of the Leading Logarithms on the Small x Behavior of the Spin Structure Function g1 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Thursday, May 5 Minnesota Wild Rice with Chicken Tuna Melt on Nine Grain $4.75 Breaded Veal with Mushroom Cream Sauce $3.75 Chicken Casserole $3.75 BLT Ranch Wrap $4.75 Cheesey Breadsticks $2.25 Chicken Pecan Salad $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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Grid Physicist Joins “Quantum Diaries” Yesterday the University of Chicago’s Rob Gardner joined over 30 other physicists worldwide telling the story of their lives as 21st-century scientists in “Quantum Diaries.” Gardner will share with readers the ups and downs of work
“The Diarists are giving people in many countries a great view of the diverse
lives of scientists,” said Gardner. “I hope to add a new dimension to the
blogs, by writing about my work in distributed computing infrastructures,
my love of Chicago architecture and much more over the next year.”
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Michael Barbor's Pursuits
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After working as a designer for 38 years, including 14 years at Fermilab,
Accelerator Division's Michael Barbor will retire today (May 5).
Barbor has focused on improving the reciprocal cold compressors,
which work with the expansion engines so the helium pumps can cool
the superconducting magnets with increased power at lower temperatures.
Barbor also was in charge of half of the Tevatron's cooling stations before
his retirement.
Before coming to Fermilab, Barbor designed fluid bed coal reactors at Kellogg-Rust-Westinghouse, and components for Triton-class nuclear submarines at General Dynamics. But he has enjoyed his time at Fermilab the most. "The people here are great," he said. "It is like a college campus. Everyone is easy to talk with, and you associate with people from all walks of life." He will continue to be a Fermilab neighbor. "I have to make sure the lab will run without me," he said with a laugh.
Barbor is from the Latrobe, Pennsylvania neighborhood, home of the
late television personality Mr. Rogers, of professional golfer Arnold
Palmer, and of Rolling Rock beer. He and wife Sandra have two boys,
Michael and Allen. Barbor will spend his retirement traveling, and marketing
a reusable static-cling Mylar strip for grocery cart handles that stops
contact-spread diseases.
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AD's Kenneth Kellogg Retires
After 13 Years Accelerator Division's Kenneth Kellogg retired from Fermilab three weeks ago on April 12. He joined Fermilab in September 1991 and has worked hard to build and maintain the controls for the kicker magnets. The kicker magnets
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Retired - Phyllis Klen, DIR, May 5, 2005 |
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From Lewis-Burke Associates, May 2, 2005 FY06 Budget Update: Overall Spending Parameters Set By Congress: Appropriations Process Set to Move Forward House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement last week on the FY06 federal budget by passing a budget resolution. The budget resolution is a macro-spending blueprint that guides the development of subsequent individual appropriations bills – legislation that actually funds agencies and programs. read more |
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, May 4, 2005 Chairman Wolf Urges Bush to Triple Federal R&D Funding by Next Decade Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) has sent a letter to President George Bush asking him "to develop the necessary consensus that will ensure America will remain the world's leader in innovation" by a "tripling [of] the innovation budget - federal basic research and development - over the next decade." Wolf is the chairman of the newly-formed House Science, State, Justice and Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee. Since the subcommittee's formation in mid-February, Wolf has quickly established himself as a strong supporter of science, having jurisdiction over funding for the National Science Foundation and NASA, and as the author of a bill that would provide interest-free loans to students studying science, mathematics or engineering. read more |
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From B Mesons to the b Quark | ||
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The study of quarks serves to reveal the workings of the
universe at very small length scales. However, quarks
exhibit a peculiar property known as confinement, whereby
they inextricably bind themselves into composite particles
called hadrons. Hadrons count among their number the
familiar proton and neutron, but also a bewildering zoology
of hundreds of other short-lived, exotically-named
particles. The experimentalist, then, necessarily observes
quarks shrouded beneath their hadronic veils.
Far away from the high vacuum of the Tevatron beam pipe, phenomenologists come to the rescue with theoretical models relating the behavior of hadrons to the properties of their
The B meson, which contains a bottom quark, provides special insight into fundamental symmetries and parameters of the universe, and is thus the subject of extremely intense study at both the Tevatron and the so-called B factories. Of the myriad decays of the B meson, roughly one-fifth of the time a muon or an electron and some variety of D meson is produced. By measuring the shape of the mass distribution of these D mesons, the CDF group has provided crucial inputs to phenomenological models of B mesons, substantially enhancing the theorist's ability to relate observed properties of B mesons to the fundamental parameters of the microscopic world. | ||
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Result of the Week Archive |
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May 2 - May 4 - During this 48 hour period Operations established one store that combined with an existing store provided approximately 32 hours an 32 minutes of luminosity - TeV quench loses store - NuMI loses power
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Fermilab Arts Series The Arts Series presents "Hibiki: A Celebration of Japan's Musical Heritage" on May 7 at 8:00 p.m. in Ramsey Auditorium. There will be a free pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 ($10 ages 18 and under). more information
Fermilab Film Series
Retirement Luncheon
Children's Swim Lessons - Registration Begings in May
NALWO Spring Tea
Recreation T-Shirt Final Close-Out Sale
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