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Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

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Thursday, Aug. 12 personnel here Thursday 2:30 p.m. Members from the Department of Energy's Theoretical Physics Seminar - Chicago Office of Counterintelligence will visit Curia II Fermilab on Thursday, Aug. 12. They will set Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov, up a booth in the atrium of Wilson Hall to University of Illinois at Chicago answer any employee questions. Title: Conformality Lost 3:30 p.m. This activity is part of the laboratory's Facility DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Counterintelligence Program. The program is BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over required of all Department of Energy national THERE WILL BE NO laboratories. ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY The goals of Fermilab's program are: SEMINAR TODAY 1. To protect Fermilab personnel, research, Distribution of the soft lepton tag track pT for technologies and information and cyber Friday, Aug. 13 Standard Model + Exotic Model tags (a), track pT systems from unauthorized exploitation 1 p.m. for Standard Model - Exotic Model tags (b), event Particle Astrophysics Seminar by intelligence collectors and intelligence H for Standard Model + Exotic Model tags (c), activities. T - One West NOTE DATE and 2. To participate, as appropriate, in the and event HT for Standard Model - Exotic Model TIME national DOE effort to protect DOE tags (d). The expectation for a hypothetical exotic Speaker: Pat McCarthy, Giant personnel, projects, information/cyber top quark is shown as the dotted red line. Magellan Telescope systems and classified materials from Physicists have accepted the top quark as the Observatory/Carnegie unauthorized collection or exploitation by missing piece of the Standard Model since the Observatories foreign intelligence practitioners. particle was discovered in 1995. Recently, Title: Status of the Giant however, theorists looked at an exotic model Magellan Telescope Project Since Fermilab is a single-purpose research of particle physics that suggested that the top 2:30 p.m. laboratory whose mission does not include quark might be more exotic than it seemed. Particle Astrophysics Seminar classified research, the program excludes - One West many comprehensive procedures required at Quarks generally contain a fraction of the NOTE DATE and TIME other DOE laboratories. electric charge. The proton has charge 1, and Speaker: Christopher Savage, the electron has charge -1. The up, charm and Stockholm University Employees should receive the laboratory's top quarks have 2/3 the electric charge; while Title: XENON10/100 Dark annual counterintelligence briefing via the down, strange and bottom quarks have - Matter Constraints: Examining interoffice mail later today. 1/3 the electric charge. CDF physicists the Leff Dependence recently examined the idea that perhaps the Photo of the Day 3:30 p.m. particle thought of as the top quark is actually DIRECTOR'S COFFEE an exotic quark that looks and behaves like BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Taking the natural log the top quark, but has electric charge of -4/3. 4 p.m. Joint Experimental-Theoretical With more than 70 times the data that they Physics Seminar - One West had in 1995, both CDF and DZero Speakers: Amol Upadhye, collaborations can now precisely measure the University of Chicago and top quark's mass, charge, lifetime, production Jason Steffen, Fermilab and decay rates, its interaction with other Title: Results of the GammeV- types of quarks and leptons and other CHASE Probe for Chameleon properties. CDF is doing just that, most Dark Energy recently analyzing the top quark's electric charge and refuting the exotic model claim. Click here for NALCAL, The collaboration recently showed that the top a weekly calendar with quark CDF collaborators observed in their file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2010/today10-08-12.html (1 of 3)8/12/2010 9:14:27 AM Fermilab Today links to additional FESS's Sue Quarto submitted this photo of turtles data agrees with the Standard Model version information. on a log. physicists have come to accept. A paper titled "Exclusion of an Exotic Top Quark with -4/3 Upcoming conferences In the News Electric Charge Using Soft Lepton Tagging" Campaigns recently submitted by CDF has been accepted Dark-matter search plunges for publication by Physical Review Letters. physicists to new depths Take Five More information From the University of Chicago News -- edited by Andy Beretvas and GP Yeh Tune IT Up Office, Aug. 11, 2010 This month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask H1N1 Flu the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground. For information about H1N1, visit Fermilab's flu information The team is deploying a 4-kilogram bubble site. chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Weather Canada. A second 60-kilogram chamber will follow later this year. Scientists anticipate that Mostly sunny dark matter particles will leave bubbles in their 93°/71° tracks when passing through the liquid in one Top row from left: John Paul Chou, Harvard/now at of these chambers. Extended Forecast Brown; Ben Kietzman, Fermilab/Wheaton College The team is deploying a 4-kilogram bubble now at Rochester; and Yen-Chu Chen, Academia Weather at Fermilab Sinica, Taiwan. Bottom row: Andy Beretvas and chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Current Security GP Yeh, Fermilab. Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Status Special Announcement Canada. A second 60-kilogram chamber will Secon Level 3 follow later this year. Scientists anticipate that dark matter particles will leave bubbles in their Air quality action day Wilson Hall Cafe tracks when passing through the liquid in one The Environmental Protection Agency has of these chambers. issued an air quality action day for the Thursday, Aug. 12 Chicagoland area. Today's conditions are - Breakfast: Apple sticks Likely suspects for what constitutes dark matter include Weakly Interacting Massive unhealthy for sensitive groups. Active children - Southwestern chicken tortilla and adults, and people with lung disease, - Philly style cheese steak Particles (WIMPS) and axions. Theorists originally proposed the existence of both these such as asthma, should reduce prolonged or - *Garlic herb-roasted pork heavy exertion outdoors. Learn more - Smart cuisine: Mardi Gras groups of subatomic particles to address issues unrelated to dark matter. “These seem jambalaya Announcements - *Southwestern turkey wrap to be perfect to explain all of these - Assorted sliced pizza observations that give us this evidence for - *Marinated grilled chicken dark matter, and that makes them very Latest Announcements Caesar salad appealing,” Collar said. 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