Tuesday, October 11, 2005

CDF's Lockyer Part of Tuesday, October 11 Panofsky Prize Team Hidden Battles 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - CDF's Nigel Lockyer will receive the 2006 Some of the battles we fight are very 2nd Flr X-Over W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in visible, 8:00 p.m. Einstein's Big Idea - WTTW-TV Experimental and when victory Channel 11 Particle follows the Note: There will be no Accelerator along with Bill Ford, celebration is Physics and Technology Seminar today of the University of immediate. A recent Colorado, and John example of such a Wednesday, October 12 Jaros, of SLAC. victory is the world 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - Their work at record luminosity 2nd Flr X-Over SLAC's MAC and achieved by the Nigel Lockyer Pier Oddone 4:00 p.m. Colloquium-1 West Mark II experiments , thanks to Speaker: J. Gardner, NASA Goddard led to the 1983 measurement of the the superb efforts of the accelerator team. Space Flight Center unexpectedly long lifetime of B mesons. Many other battles that are critically Title: Galaxy Formation with the Hubble important for the laboratory are hidden Jaros designed a high-precision vertex and James Webb Space Telescopes from view. Victories in such battles often detector for the Mark II, initially focusing Note: There will be no Fermilab ILC R&D pass quietly. meeting this week on the lifetimes of tau leptons and charm particles. But Ford, with the MAC Today I want to highlight one such battle, detector, and Lockyer, with the Mark II still ongoing, but by all appearances Cloudy 60º/52º detector, pursued what many physicists of headed for victory. Two weeks ago we the time thought was impossible - the came within two weeks of shutting the Extended Forecast lifetime analysis of B mesons. "It was accelerators down for lack of cooling thought to have an extremely short water. As most of you probably know, we Weather at Fermilab lifetime and there was no chance of rely on several of the ponds at Fermilab measuring it," Lockyer said. "I decided to for the accelerator cooling water (ICW). try it." Analysis by Lockyer and Jaros, The fact we even had two weeks of along with Berkley colleagues including Secon Level 3 reserve was the result of an enormous Mark Nelson, showed a long lifetime, effort to manage the water systems within causing the scientists to assume an error the site during the unprecedented drought in the data. "We spent a year of our lives that has affected our area. Many trying to determine what was done wrong individuals in FESS have contributed to and in the end, it was the right answer," this effort, from laying pipe, installing he said. Ford's analysis at MAC reached pumps, gathering data, moving water the same conclusion. from storage ponds into active ones and managing the river flows to ordering and The discovery led to an understanding of installing parts. the CKM hierarchy, paved the way for B

factories and ultimately, the observation The drought has lowered the flow of the of the , Lockyer said. Lockyer Tuesday, October 11 was CDF co-spokesperson from 2001- Fox River for most of the summer to - Tomato Bisque 2003 and currently is a physics professor below the minimum level that would allow - Pesto Marinated Chicken Breast at the University of Pennsylvania, working us to pump water to make up our usage - Burgundy Beef Tips on CDF and the International Linear losses. The recent rainfall has provided a - Baked Fish Creole over Rice Collider. welcome respite. But we are not just - Grilled Chicken Caesar Wrap waiting for the kindness of Mother Nature. - Supreme Pizza The American Physical Society's We are bringing some of the wells on site - Rio Grande Taco Salads Panofsky Prize recognizes outstanding into production so that they, together with achievements in experimental particle the water we pump to keep NUMI/MINOS The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, physics. Fermilab Director Pier Oddone dry and the make-up water from the Fox Master Card, Discover and American won last year's prize for his work with River, will enable us to be much more Express at Cash Register #1. asymmetric B factories. The prize resilient when faced with a lingering includes $5,000 for travel to the award drought. Wilson Hall Cafe Menu ceremony, scheduled for April in Dallas. —Kendra Snyder

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