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Mon., July 2 First Betz intern to carry on Drill bits PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS prairie restoration legacy SEMINARS WILL RESUME IN THE FALL Robert Betz, 3:00 p.m. Fermilab's founding

Accelerator Physics and father of prairie Technology Seminar - Curia II restoration, began his Half-round drill bits as pictured are often used for (NOTE DATE, TIME, mission in 1973 and horizontal drilling in brass. LOCATION) restored almost 20 During the week of June 18, 2007 three Speaker: E. Métral, CERN percent of the native unrelated power drill injuries occurred at Title: TMCI Revealed by prairie species on Fermilab, an unusual number of cases for a Frequency Analysis of Headtail site before his recent single activity. Tracking Data Using SUSSIX passing in April. 3:30 p.m. Natalie Dierx is the first In the first and most serious injury, an DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Betz Intern. This summer, 18- employee's left forearm was lacerated by a BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over year-old Natalie Dierx will carry on Betz's piece of brass that seized on a bit in a drill 4:00 p.m. legacy through a Fermilab-funded internship. press and spun around. Fifteen sutures were All Experimenters' Meeting - Despite growing up in urban and industrial applied to close the wound. When working Curia II Ontario, Canada, she has taken a passionate with drills, it is important to know which bits Special Topic: T-958/LHC interest in the wide-open Illinois prairie and are optimal for different applications. Forward Proton Fast Timing has managed to earn a spot as the first Betz Investigation revealed the worker had used Test Intern this year. twist drill bits for use with hard metals. For Tue., July 3 Encouraged by a high school ecology teacher softer metals like brass and copper, twist bits 11:00 a.m. to learn about environmental science, Dierx, with flattened cutting edges or half-round bits Accelerator Physics and who now lives in the southwest suburbs in are preferred. These are less likely to grab the Technology Seminar - Curia II Chicago, founded her high school ecology softer material. (NOTE TIME, LOCATION) club and worked with other students to build a In the second injury, tiny metal slivers entered Speaker: M. Giovannozzi, prairie in her school's courtyard. She now an employee's left palm as he inserted drill bits CERN wants to become a conservational biologist into a drill. These were apparently metal Title: Resonant Multi-Turn after she completes her coursework in particles that became dislodged during Extraction Project: Principle Environment and Resource Studies at the handling. To prevent injuries such as this, it is and Experiments at the CERN University of Waterloo in Ontario. Proton Synchrotron important to wipe all debris from drill bits after 12:00 p.m. "I think [the prairie] is something we should use. This can be done with a clean cloth or Summer Lecture Series - Curia preserve," said Dierx. "I want my kids to see a disposable tissue, and a spray cleaner or II (NOTE LOCATION) preserved environment." other mild oil can be used if necessary. Speaker: A. Warner, Fermilab In the third case, a worker lacerated his left Title: Accelerators In the Fermilab fields, Dierx works closely with index finger when a screwdriver drill bit slipped 3:30 p.m. Roads and Grounds' Bob Lootens and on-call off a drywall screw. This kind of accident can DIRECTOR'S COFFEE restoration worker Rachel Bridger. Their be avoided by using a bit equipped with a BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over primary job is to help the area's biodiversity by picking seeds and distributing them to places magnetic holder and sleeve. Click here for NALCAL, lacking in certain plant species. ES&H would like to thank veteran Fermilab a weekly calendar with links "Natalie is very self-motivated. It's not easy to machinists Jim Wilson and Don Fisher for their to additional information. spend six or seven hours everyday collecting assistance in preparing this article. Weather seed, and there is a huge need for her this Safety Tip of the Week Archive summer. We are finding and distributing all these seeds that matured this summer, and Sunny 84°/68° Milestone this means more diversity in Fermilab's prairies and woodlands," Lootens said. Extended Forecast "Through this internship, individuals have the Weather at Fermilab opportunity to help us enrich our prairies with file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2007/today07-07-02.html (1 of 3)7/3/2007 9:42:37 AM Fermilab Today

Current Security Status species that will mature earlier in the year." SciBooNE begins taking data The SciBooNE collaboration has finished the Secon Level 3 A memorial service honoring the life of Bob Betz and his lasting influence on Fermilab and commissioning of its detector and has begun to take physics quality data. Wilson Hall Cafe the region will take place on Saturday, July 7, at 2 p.m. in Ramsey Auditorium. The event will View the SciBooNE web site. Monday, July 2 highlight the great contributions that Bob made to prairie conservation and restoration in No Menu available In the News Illinois, in particular his work at Fermilab and Wilson Hall Cafe Menu its National Environmental Research Park. Chez Leon Click here for more information. Interactions.org, June 29, 2007 Wednesday, July 4 -- Lauren Younis Lunch Germany’s Largest Research Instrument Closed In Memoriam Finishes Experiments DESY’s particle accelerator HERA shuts down Thursday, July 5 Remembering Albert Wattenberg Dinner On June 30, 2007, data taking at the electron- Closed From the News-Gazette, June 30, 2007 proton storage ring HERA at DESY will come to an end. For 15 years, deep in the earth Chez Leon Menu beneath Hamburg, electrons and protons have Call x4598 to make your smashed into one another. “The particle reservation. physics experiments at HERA have provided a Archives unique and detailed picture of the proton and the interacting forces that will not be surpassed by any accelerator in the world for Fermilab Today many years,” said Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, research director for particle physics at DESY. “On the one hand, the precision Result of the Week measurements have a great influence on particle physics theory; on the other hand they Safety Tip of the Week are a good basis for interpreting the exciting new physics that is expected from experiments at the Terascale in the coming ILC NewsLine Albert Wattenberg (front row third from left) with years.” The analysis of data measured at the Enrico Fermi and other scientists who worked on 6.3 kilometer-long electron-proton storage ring the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain will last far into the next decade. Some results Info reaction. have already found their way into physics textbooks. Fermilab Today is online at: URBANA - Albert Wattenberg, 90, retired www.fnal.gov/today/ University of Illinois physics professor, and Read more one of the scientists who worked with Enrico Accelerator Update Send comments and Fermi on the first controlled release of nuclear suggestions to: energy, died June 27, 2007, at Clark-Lindsey June 27 - 29 [email protected] Village. - Two stores provided 25.5 hours of luminosity - Lightning strike delays shot setup Al was born in New York City, a few days after - MTest once again taking beam America entered World War I. He attended public schools in Manhattan, before entering Read the Current Accelerator Update City College of New York, where in the 1930s Read the Early Bird Report he first demonstrated his lifelong commitment View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts to peace, freedom and justice by organizing several student strikes. He was president of Announcements his graduation class but refused to attend graduation because the officiating officer was friendly with the Italian Fascists. In 1939 he began a graduate program in physics at Columbia University. When Fermi left Columbia to work on what would be the Manhattan project to build an atomic bomb, he recruited Al to accompany him to the file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2007/today07-07-02.html (2 of 3)7/3/2007 9:42:37 AM Fermilab Today

University of Chicago, where on Dec. 2, 1942, Accomplishment report information in a squash court under the stands at Stagg It is that time of year again to reflect on our Field, they inaugurated the era of atomic past year’s performance. All employees must power. In commemoration, the physicists complete the 2006-2007 accomplishment shared a bottle of Chianti and all signed the report by July 15th. View the Employee bottle as a record of who was there. Al kept Relations website for performance review the bottle for many years before donating it to timeline, instructions, forms, and resources. the national archives. NALWO prairie walk July 6 Al's recollection of the war years always NALWO will host a prairie walk from 9 a.m. to conveyed the urgency the physicists felt as 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 6, 2007. Guided by they worked on this project because they Horticulturalist Mary Hawthorne, attendees will feared the Nazis would develop an atomic learn how to identify prairie plants and discuss bomb first, yet he was ambivalent about the their medicinal and edible uses, and can course of the Manhattan project as directed by participate in a scavenger hunt to sharpen General Leslie Groves. When Fermi left to observational skills. The tour will meet in the work on the bomb at Los Alamos National Lederman Science Education Center parking Laboratories in New Mexico, Al stayed in lot at 9 a.m. Please bring a bottle of water, and Chicago, and worked with Leo Szilard, who wear socks and closed-toe shoes even if the had theorized and patented the idea of a weather is hot. Contact Selitha Raja by calling nuclear chain reaction, and who had drafted (630) 305-7769 or via email to attend. A large the letter Albert Einstein sent to President response may generate an additional walk in Roosevelt informing him of the possibility of August. atomic weapons. In 1945, Al was one of the signers of the petition Szilard sent to the Kyuki-Do classes government declaring that the unannounced Kyuki-Do is a Korean martial art based on use of nuclear weapons on Japan at that Taekwondo, but includes Hapkido, Judo, and stage of the war would be immoral. After the Jujitsu. The next class will begin July 9 and bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and run through August 15. Classes are held on Nagasaki, Al was one of the founders in Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:00 – 6:00 p. September 1945 of the peace-focused m. in the exercise room of the Recreation organization The Federation of Atomic Facility. Cost is $45 per 6-week session. You Scientists, which began publishing the Bulletin must be a member of the Recreation Facility of the Atomic Scientists, with its famed to join, and must register through the doomsday clock on the cover. Recreation Office by July 6.