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Fermilab Today Fermilab Today Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 Subscribe | Contact Us | Archive | Classifieds | Guidelines | Help Search Calendar Feature CMS Result of the Month Have a safe day! DUSEL planning on track Into the unknown Friday, Sept. 10 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO JOINT EXPERIMENTAL- THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK 8 p.m. Fermilab Lecture Series -- Ramsey Auditorium A graphic summarizing the various kinds of scientific experiments that could take place in the This figure represents a collision recorded by CMS Speaker: Dr. Paul Sereno, with 2.136 TeV of energy. The Tevatron's University of Chicago proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. maximum energy is 1.96 TeV. Figure adapted from Title: A Croc Odyssey: Speedy here. Gallopers with a Taste for At the first meeting of potential DUSEL users, We hope the LHC will one day discover Dinosaurs participants and funding agencies expressed satisfaction with the progress of the design for phenomena that totally change the way we Monday, Sept. 13 the next proposed national laboratory and its look at the universe. However, the amount of 2:30 p.m. experiments. data collected thus far by the LHC Particle Astrophysics Seminar experiments is very small compared to that recorded by the Tevatron experiments. We - One West “Where the proposal is today is very expect that it will take a while for the LHC Speaker: Paolo Gondolo, satisfactory, and the trajectory is good,” said experiments to unlock their full potential. University of Utah Joseph Dehmer, director of the physics division at NSF. Title: Channeling in Dark On the other hand, there are some things that Matter Detection If approved, construction and experiment the LHC can do with the first data that are 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S installation could begin in 2014 and continue impossible at any other facility. One such thing COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X- for seven years. A few experiments still in the is to study particle collisions with an energy Over R&D phase would be installed one to three higher than the Tevatron’s beam energy of 4 p.m. years later. 1.96 TeV. All Experimenters' Meeting - Curia II The breadth of the experiments and their often Protons and antiprotons are actually Special Topic: CD R&D on one-of-a-kind nature makes DUSEL stand out, composite objects, composed of even smaller Optical Links for Detector Data attendees said. Not only will the physics particles called quarks and gluons. A good Transmission experiments put the U.S. at the head of analogy might be a bean bag, with the proton Click here for NALCAL, neutrino and dark matter research, but the as the bean bag and the quarks and gluons as a weekly calendar with depth and large caverns the experiments the beans. At both the Tevatron and the LHC, links to additional require will allow for deep underground the thing of interest is a collision between a information. biology, geology and engineering research at single bean from each of two bean bags. unprecedented scales. Because there are many beans, each carrying Upcoming conferences some of the particle’s energy, these collisions The suite of experiments will not be finalized Campaigns involve less energy than the accelerator gives for at least another year. The DUSEL Program to the beam particles. Thus, it is essentially Advisory Committee said a loosely-defined impossible for scientists to see a two-bean (or Take Five suite of experiments is specific enough to quark) collision at 7 TeV at the LHC and a 2 finish the facility's design but leaves flexibility TeV collision at the Tevatron. for later selecting individual experiments and Tune IT Up their designs. The LHC has already seen many two-quark collisions with energies higher than the So far NSF has received 25 research maximum possible at the Tevatron. Readers Weather proposals. In general, the non-physics will recall that experimenters observe not programs will study carbon sequestering, individual quarks but rather jets, which are file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2010/today10-09-10.html (1 of 4)9/10/2010 9:13:56 AM Fermilab Today Sunny tunnel engineering, deep life forms and the sprays of particles all going more-or-less in the 71°/59° effects of water removal and construction on same direction as the scattered quark. The seismic activity and life forms. Standard Model predicts that the quarks are Extended Forecast usually scattered at small angles compared to Weather at Fermilab The proposed physics experiments break into the beam. Today’s Result of the Month reports five broad research categories: supernovae, Current Security on a recent study of collisions in which the dark matter, proton decay, neutrino mass Status quarks are scattered at angles closer to 90 hierarchy and neutrinoless double beta decay. degrees from the beam direction. This sweet Secon Level 3 spot is where physicists expect to most easily Current construction plans would allow for two find new physical phenomena. simultaneous installations at the surface level. Wilson Hall Cafe Vertical experiments such as carbon So far, we have observed nothing new. sequestering would exist from the zero to Friday, Sept. 10 However, this and similar studies are already 1,700-foot level. The 4,850-foot level cavern - Breakfast: Chorizo burrito ruling out phenomena beyond what the could hold four to five physics experiments - New England clam chowder Tevatron can see. As more data comes in, the while the 7,400-foot level cavern could - Carolina cheeseburger CMS experiment will continue to push forward accommodate two physics experiments. All - Tuna casserole into the unknown and, we hope, make a levels also could contain earth science - Dijon meatballs over noodles discovery. experiments. - Bistro chicken & provolone - Don Lincoln panini In December the preliminary design report - Assorted sliced pizza with a revised schedule and cost will be given - *Carved top round of beef to NSF. DOE and NSF will receive an updated report on DUSEL science in spring 2011, and *Carb restricted alternative the funding agencies are expected to decide in Wilson Hall Cafe Menu August 2011 whether to proceed. “We are looking forward to the next steps on Chez Leon this,” said Heidi Schellman, DUSEL PAC member. “So, let’s go.” Wednesday, Sept. 15 Lunch -- Tona Kunz - Tri-colored tortellini w/ gorgonzola cream Feature - Sautéed spinach - Raspberry mousse w/cookies University of Chicago's Paul This data plot shows the amount of energy involved in a collision between the quarks in two Thursday, Sept. 16 Sereno gives croc talk today beam particles. This data restricts itself to Dinner collisions occurring at angles near 90 degrees to - Closed the beam direction. We can relax that criterion and routinely observe even higher energies, although Chez Leon Menu such a choice would reduce CMS’ sensitivity in our Call x3524 to make your searches for new physical phenomena. Figure reservation. adapted from here. Archives Fermilab Today Naperville native and University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno will give a lecture tonight titled "A Croc Odyssey: Speedy Gallopers with a Result of the Week Taste for Dinosaurs." Follow the expeditions that uncovered a Safety Tip of the Week menagerie of extinct crocodiles with Paul Sereno, who will deliver the Fermilab Lecture on Friday, Sept. 10. In his talk he will explain CMS Result of the Month how these extinct African castaways and their living descendants unravel the evolutionary These junior physicists have played pivotal roles in story. User University Profiles this exciting new result. The Naperville native and Northern Illinois Milestone University graduate earned a doctorate at file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2010/today10-09-10.html (2 of 4)9/10/2010 9:13:56 AM Fermilab Today ILC NewsLine Columbia University and the American Birth Museum of Natural History and has taught Info paleontology and evolution at the University of Chicago since 1987. Fermilab Today “In paleontology, I saw an irresistible is online at: combination of travel, adventure, art, biology www.fnal.gov/today/ and geology," Sereno said. Send comments and His travels have led him from the foothills of suggestions to: the Andes to the heart of the Sahara desert, today@fnal.gov where his team unearthed 100 tons of dinosaur fossils and a diversity of new Visit the Fermilab species. His latest discovery, a stunning Case Western Reserve University physicist Karen home page human burial site dating back 10,000 years, Gibson and her husband, Ryuji Kusumoto, ranks as one of the most spectacular welcomed a son, Henry Francis Gibson, into the world at 12:14 a.m. on Aug. 27. Henry weighed 6 Unsubscribe from Fermilab prehistoric burials ever discovered. Today pounds and 7 ounces at birth. Congratulations! Sereno is the author of books and stories in Special Announcement National Geographic and Natural History and has been the subject of scores of Did you make a difference? documentaries. He has won numerous awards Share sustainability stories for teaching, mentorship, and outstanding contributions to paleontology. He will give a Fermilab is putting together a sustainability lecture, “A Croc Odyssey: Speedy Gallopers website and is looking for stories from with a Taste for Dinosaurs,” is at 8 p.m. in the employees and users about how you help the auditorium. 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