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Friday, May 12, 2006

EPP2010 Committee Friday, May 12 members will speak today Possible Proposal 1:30 p.m. Briefing on EPP2010 report - The EPP2010 report made headlines a Presented for ILC Test Beam Ramsey Auditorium couple of weeks ago. What does it say Facilities at Fermilab 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE about the future of Fermilab? Find out BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over more today at 1:30 in the Ramsey 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Auditorium, where EPP2010 Committee Physics Seminar - 1 West member Chuck Shank and Committee co- Speaker: G. Manca, University of chair Sally Dawson will speak to the Liverpool Fermilab community. Everyone at Title: Searches for in Fermilab is invited to attend. Multilepton Signatures With the CDF Detector What's on your chalkboard? 8:00 p.m. Fermilab International Film Society presents Monty Python and the One possible location for placing a linac Holy Grail - Ramsey Auditorium inside the ring as a test facility for the ILC. Monday, May 15 Before the International Linear Collider 2:30 p.m. Particle Astrophysics Seminar can be built, physicists and engineers - Curia II Speaker: A. Crotts, Columbia must prove that the proposed baseline University design will achieve the desired physics, Title: Liquid Mirror Telescopes In addition to shedding light on dark matter requiring testing and R&D at laboratories 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE and its possible explanation through and institutions around the world. As part BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over supersymmetry, Marcela Carena’s of this process, Fermilab's Mike Church THERE WILL BE NO ALL chalkboard illustrates the mysteries of matter- recently shared with attendees, at a EXPERIMENTERS' MEETING THIS antimatter asymmetry. (Click on image for weekly ILC R&D meeting, one possible WEEK larger version.) proposal for ILC Test Beam Facilities that would utilize the lab's already existing In the top left corner of theoretical For links to events, click here. infrastructure. physicist Marcela Carena's chalkboard, next to a paper flower from her 10-year- In an early stage of development and not old son, lies a graph of cosmic Occasional Rain 45º/39º yet endorsed by Fermilab management, significance. The graph shows the range the proposal will continue to be evaluated at which the Tevatron should be able to Extended Forecast and reviewed not only by the lab but also detect "stops," the supersymmetric by the Global Design Effort and the partners to top quarks, whose detection Weather at Fermilab Department of Energy. "This is a work in could radically alter the way we think progress," Church said. "We haven't about the universe. Supersymmetry fills thought too seriously about cost, location many of the holes in our understanding or a timeline yet. The tiered proposal of the universe and demands that every Secon Level 3 allows you to make more rational particle we know have a mirror particle. decisions about what you're getting."

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"We're looking for stops at the Tevatron, Read More Friday, May 12 but they are difficult to find. A proton is -Cream of Wild Mushroom —Elizabeth Clements [made of] a lot of things," Carena says. -Blackened Fish Filet Sandwich She scratches two sets of three lines, -Southern Fried Chicken representing the three quarks that make -Tuna Casserole up a proton, and has them converge in a Health and Fitness Day, May 17 -Eggplant Parmesan Panini messy "V," representing the collision This year's event is from 11:30 a.m. to -Pizza Supreme between two protons. But since electrons 1:30 p.m. on Ring Road. Participants -Assorted Sub Sandwich are themselves fundamental particles-- may sign in, pick up a game ticket and Carena accents this with a clean two- grab a bottle of water at A1, then walk, The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, lined "V" representing the collision run, rollerblade, or bike around the ring. Master Card, Discover and American between an electron and an anti- Express. electron, or positron--the ILC will be a Batavia Road entrance closed to cars "cleaner" environment than the and bicycles Upcoming Menu Tevatron's proton-antiproton collider, The Batavia Road entrance is closed for making it easier to spot stops and other renovation now through Monday, May 22 Wednesday, May 17 supersymmetric particles. at 4:00 p.m. During this time, the City of Lunch Warrenville will also be repaving -Antipasto Salad Supersymmetry provides a possible roadways and carrying out other -Apricot Mousse with Butter Cookies candidate for dark matter, the stuff that construction work along Batavia Road. makes galaxies rotate faster than they Delays are expected to continue until Thursday, May 18 should. In the top center of Carena's early June, even after the entrance re- Dinner board, a diagram shows how an electron- opens. Drivers and bicyclists should use -Fresh Mozzarella & Tomato Salad positron collision could produce a pair of Pine and Wilson Street entrances until -Garlic Shrimp w/Red Peppers & Wild stops (t), which would in turn decay into the work is completed. Pine Street Mushrooms neutralinos (x)--the lightest neutral entrance hours are 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p. -Lemongrass Rice supersymmetric particles, whose weak m. for the general public and 24 hours a -Brandi Flan interactions with normal matter make day, 7 days a week for employees. The them strong candidates for dark matter. Wilson Road entrance hours are 6:00 a. Chez Leon Menu By making precise measurements of the m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call x4598 to make your reservation. masses and interactions of SUSY For more information, contact Tom particles at collider experiments, Prosapio at [email protected] physicists can infer the properties of dark Search the Fermilab Today Archive matter particles and compute the amount Main Ring Road, near A0, closed of dark matter in the universe. If their A section of Main Ring Road in front of

measurements match those of the A0 storage building is closed until astrophysicists, "then you know what 5:00 p.m. today. The emergency closure you're seeing is dark matter," Carena is necessary to replace an oil switch. said. People using the A0 lot should allow time --Jennifer Lauren Lee for a 4-mile detour. Detour signs will be posted.

Power Outage On Saturday, May 20, there will be a

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There will be a Fermilab Folk Club Barn Hurricane Relief Page Dance Sunday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. with Fermilab Today archive music by Dr. Hojka's Medicine Show and calling by Lisa Ornstein. More Fermilab Today PDF Version information is available on the website.

Fermilab Result of the Week archive Hawks at Fermilab: Fermilab physicist Tim Koeth found this red-tailed hawk sitting on a Fermilab Association of Rocketry: Re- Fermilab Safety Tip of the Week archive scheduled lamppost just south of the Main Booster last Due to forecasted weather conditions on Linear Collider News archive October. Koeth sees this hawk often, and Saturday, May 13, this week's launch will thinks he may live here. "He's a local for be re-scheduled for Saturday, May 20th Fermilab Today classifieds sure; I call him the F4 Hawk," said Koeth. from 10am to 3pm. Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Fermilab Today (Click on image for larger version.)

Team rosters needed for summer Chicago Chronicle, volleyball league May 11, 2006: The recreational summer volleyball National academies elect five league will start on May 22. Interested University professors to their 2006 teams and individual players should memberships contact league representative Jenny Thorson, [email protected] or call Two University faculty members, x3470. Team rosters need to be Francisco Bezanilla, Professor and submitted to Jenny by Monday, May 15. Pritzker Scholar in Pediatrics and the For more information check the volleyball Institute for Molecular Pediatric Science, web page. and Melvyn Shochet, the Elaine M. & Samuel D. Kersten Jr. Distinguished Save the date Service Professor in Physics, the Enrico The Fermi Singers are going to have a Fermi Institute and the College, were concert on June 2, more information will among 72 individuals elected to the be posted soon. National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, April 25. Election to the 143- New classified ads have been posted on year-old academy is considered one of Fermilab Today. the highest honors that can be awarded to an American scientist. The election of Upcoming Activities Bezanilla and Shochet brings to 41 the current number of Chicago faculty elected to membership. Read More

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