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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Out-of-area health coverage Thursday, July 27 Wicked W Bosons in Top 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Quark Decays? WH-3NE Speaker: R. Zukanovich Funchal, Universidade de São Paulo Title: Direct Mixing Effects Versus Induced Mass Matrix of Active Neutrinos 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over If you're planning an end-of-summer 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and vacation, you can get health coverage while Technology Seminar - Curia II you're away. The decay angle theta* caries the W boson Speaker: R. Pasquinelli, Fermilab helicity information and is defined as the Planning a long trip during the last days angle between the lepton and the top quark Title: Noise in RF Systems of summer? Kids going back to college in flight direction in the W rest frame. The data 6:00 p.m. UTeV Lecture - Curia II prefer a right-handed fraction (FR-H) more the fall? If so, it's time to consider your consistent with 0.0 than with 0.1 or 0.2. Speaker: M. Wascko, Imperial College options for out-of-area health coverage. If Throughout history being right-handed Title: Low Energy Neutrino Physics with you belong to a Blue Cross/Blue Shield has been considered the norm, while the SciBooNE, A New Experiment at HMO, HMO Illinois or Blue Advantage Latin word sinister meant left and was Fermilab HMO, you are entitled to health services associated with wickedness. outside the covered area. You have two Friday, July 28 choices: 1) Away From Home Care, also In , handedness or 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE referred to as "guest membership." This helicity is defined as the projection of the BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over option is for people on extended trips angular momentum to the direction of THERE WILL BE NO JOINT who may want to go to regular doctor's motion. CDF studied the helicity of W EXPERIMENTAL THEORETICAL appointments away from home; and 2) bosons in top quark decays. W bosons PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK Blue Card Urgent Care Programs, for can have one of 3 helicity states: right- more urgent concerns that need more handed, left-handed and longitudinal. Click here for a full calendar with links immediate treatment, but are not life- to additional information. threatening emergencies. (In the event of Our theoretical framework, the Standard a life-threatening emergency, you should Model of particle physics, predicts that 70 always seek care at the nearest Chance of Showersnbsp;89º/70º percent of all W bosons from top quark hospital.) decays are longitudinally polarized and

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as a result of a theory to explain why all U.S. physicists are among the CMS Linear Collider News archive subatomic particles— and thus all scientists taking and analyzing data from Fermilab Today classifieds objects in the universe—have mass. cosmic rays to calibrate and align the CMS particle detector in preparation for Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Fermilab Today "The understanding of particle physics the start-up of the has reached a very advanced level, but accelerator at CERN next year. DOE's there are still things that are puzzling," Fermilab, near Chicago, Illinois, serves says Duke University physicist Ashutosh as the host laboratory for the U.S. CMS Kotwal. "We understand why particles collaboration, and the U.S. helped to and forces behave the way they do, and fund the design and construction of the how they interact with each other. But detector. our theories all only make sense if these Read More fundamental particles have no mass, which is obviously not true." July 24 - 26 Read More - Two stores provided 25 hours and 19 minutes of luminosity - Controls system problems - Feeder 49 ground fault causes power glitch - TeV quench due to kicker failure - NuMI to start taking beam on Wednesday afternoon (7-26-06) Read the Current Accelerator Update Read the Early Bird Report View the Luminosity Charts AD's Greg Vogel found this dragonfly Sunday afternoon near the bridge on the walking path to the Lederman Center. (Click image for larger version.)

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Amazon.com News, Memorial Service for Jane Wilson July 26, 2006: There will be a memorial service for Jane A Hint of Axions: An experiment may Wilson on Sunday, August 20 at have seen an elusive new particle 12:00pm in the Users' Center in the researchers Fermilab Village. If you'd like to attend, Pran Nath, Daniel Feldman and Zuowei please click here. Liu have shown that the discovery of a proposed particle, dubbed the East entrance to close this Saturday Stueckelberg Z prime, is possible utilizing On Saturday, July 29, the Batavia Road the data being collected in the CDF and east entrance will close for road seal DO experiments at the Fermilab coating and striping. The entrance will be Tevatron. The Stueckelberg Z prime reopened Sunday morning, July 30, at particle, originally proposed by Boris 6:00 a.m. The bicycle path will remain Kors currently at CERN, Geneva, open during this period. Switzerland and Pran Nath at Northeastern University in 2004, is so English country dancing narrow that questions had been raised as English country dancing will meet this to whether or not it could be detected. Sunday, July 30, at 2 p.m. Fermilab's This new research, published in the July Barn, and will continue to meet during issue of Physical Review Letters, the summer on the last Sunday afternoon confirms that it can. The results are of of the month. Newcomers are welcome; importance because the discovery of this partners and previous experience are not particle would provide a clue to the required. Please contact folkdance@fnal. nature of physics beyond the Standard gov or call 630-584-0825 or 630-840- Model and a possible link with string 8194. theory. Read More Upcoming Activities

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