Fermilab Today Thursday, April 1, 2010 Subscribe | Contact Us | Archive | Classifieds | Guidelines | Help Search Calendar Feature Result of the Week Have a safe day! Dmitri Denisov re-elected as Top quarks live fast and die Thursday, April 1 DZero co-spokesperson young 10:30 a.m. Dmitri Denisov will lead the Particle Astrophysics Seminar DZero collaboration for two - One West (NOTE DATE and more years. He was TIME) recently re-elected to Speaker: Andrea Lommen, another term as the Franklin and Marshall College collaboration's co- Title: The North American spokesperson. Nanohertz Observatory of Gravitational Waves Fermilab Director Pier (NANOGrav) Oddone congratulated 2:30 p.m. Dmitri Denisov Denisov and said he was Theoretical Physics Seminar - delighted Denisov would Curia II continue in the position. Speaker: Julius Kuti, University of California, San Diego "There was a very large consensus in the Title: Lattice Studies of the collaboration that Dmitri has been doing an The lifetime of a top quark is a tenth of a trillionth of Nearly Conformal Composite excellent job as a spokesperson," said DZero a trillionth of a second, far beyond the ability of Higgs Mechanism co-spokesperson Stefan Soldner-Rembold. stopwatches to measure. Top quarks are identified 3:30 p.m. by their characteristic decay into a bottom quark Soldner-Rembold, who has worked with DIRECTOR'S COFFEE and the unstable W boson. By determining the Denisov as co-spokesperson for the past year, BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over range of masses a top quark can have, scientists believes that Denisov's broad experience can work out its fleeting lifetime. 4 p.m. within the collaboration makes him an Accelerator Physics and If you go to a high school track practice, you’ll invaluable asset. Technology Seminar - One see coaches using stop watches to time the young athletes. A world-class 100-yard dash West "His detailed knowledge of all aspects of the can take just shy of 10 seconds and, for a time Speaker: Mohammed Awida, experiment and his vision of what we should interval like that, a stop watch is entirely University of Tennessee, do are very important," Soldner-Rembold said. adequate. Of course there are things that are Knoxville much faster, such as a blink of an eye or a beat Title: Twisted Waveguide Denisov has worked on almost all areas of of a hummingbird’s wings. But compared to the Accelerating Structures: DZero. He began working with the subatomic realm, these brief instants might as Potential and Challenges collaboration when he was a graduate student during the experiment's Run I construction. He well be an eternity. Friday, April 2 has served as a spokesperson for the Most of the subatomic particles made at the 3:30 p.m. collaboration since 2006. Tevatron have a fleeting existence, but it is rare DIRECTOR'S COFFEE for one to live as briefly as the top quark. BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Denisov said he would like to continue serving DZero scientists have announced that they THERE WILL BE NO JOINT in the leadership role to take advantage of EXPERIMENTAL- both the chance to work with such talented have determined the lifetime of the top quark THEORETICAL PHYSICS physicists and the bevy of exciting and found it to be an ephemeral 3 x 10-25 SEMINAR THIS WEEK measurements to come. seconds. This is a mind-bogglingly tiny number, and there are no good analogies to Click here for NALCAL, "I'm excited by the breadth of our physics describe something that small. a weekly calendar with program," Denisov said. "We have well over links to additional 100 different analyses underway.” This result is accomplished by exploiting a information. principle of quantum mechanics, called the Soldner-Rembold, a University of Manchester Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. In its most Upcoming conferences professor, thinks that his close-knit working basic form, it states that you can’t accurately relationship with Denisov and their Campaigns know the position and the velocity of an object appointments exemplify the collaboration's at the same time. However, a variant of the strength – the joined forces of the Fermilab principle says that similarly you can’t accurately and university research communities. file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2010/today10-04-01.html (1 of 4)4/1/2010 9:33:26 AM Fermilab Today know simultaneously the energy and lifetime of Take Five "You can't get a sheet of paper between us. a particle. Remember that Einstein showed that We work very closely and we exchange mass and energy are the same thing. DZero Tune IT Up opinions daily on what needs to be done," scientists were able to use subtle methods to Soldner-Rembold said. "We complement each determine a range of possible masses for top other very well, and I'm really happy about quarks and to therefore infer the particle’s Dmitri’s re-election." H1N1 Flu lifetime. -- Rhianna Wisniewski Another interesting feature of this result is that For information about H1N1, it uses events in which a single top quark was visit Fermilab's flu information Photo of the Day produced. This accomplishment is particularly site. noteworthy because top quarks are most Unusual visit commonly produced in pairs and the first Weather observation of events in which a single top quark was produced was a mere year ago. 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These two physicists are joint leaders of - Saffron rice & red pepper pilaf the group of scientists who are working to identify - Honey-glazed peach tart w/ “It was emotional to see,” Shipsey said. “It was electrons, photons, neutrinos and jets using the DZero calorimeter. mascarpone cream a very exciting moment for everyone at Fermilab.” Accelerator Update Wednesday, April 7 Lunch By using accelerators, scientists hope to re- - Spiced pork tenderloin w/ create the conditions that existed shortly after bourbon reduction sauce the Big Bang. 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