Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Proton Driver Workshop Tuesday, October 5 Starts Tomorrow Good Morning! What new physics could come out of a 3:00 p.m. Special Theoretical From our more intense proton beam? Starting Astrophysics Seminar - Curia II laboratory's earliest tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, Speaker: J. Ostriker, Princeton days, neutrino the Fermilab Proton Driver Workshop University beams have had a will aim at answering that question. Title: Early Ionization of the Universe leading role in from Stars and Black Holes Fermilab physics. "The purpose of the workshop is to try 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Fermilab neutrino to explore what kind of information we BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over experiments could get from new experiments using Mike Witherell THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR elucidated the a proton driver," said Steve Geer, the PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY structure of the nucleon and pointed workshop's SEMINAR TODAY the way to the W and Z bosons before they were observed at colliders. More lead organizer. Wednesday, October 6 recent neutrino experiments here 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE provided precise measurements used The Fermilab BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over to predict the Higgs mass and Long-Range 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - observed tau neutrino interactions for Planning Auditorium (NOTE LOCATION) the first time. Committee Speaker: B. Holmes, San Jose State (LRP) found University A new Fermilab neutrino program is last spring that Title: The Physics of Brass Musical well under way, designed to exploit a proton driver - Instruments neutrino oscillations to understand the a new proton The Proton Driver Work- nature of neutrino mass. The source with up shop starts tomorrow. MiniBooNE experiment has been Tuesday, October 5 to five times (Click on image for larger running for two years in the Booster Chicken and Rice soup the intensity, version.) neutrino beam, looking for evidence of Mushroom Swiss Burger $4.75 i.e., five times a fourth neutrino species. The MINOS Baked Meatloaf with a Roasted Tomato more protons - should be a leading experiment will soon start observing Demi-Glace $3.75 candidate for the laboratory's neutrinos produced by the NUMI Parmesan Baked Fish $3.75 development well into the next decade. neutrino beam, the first time Southwestern Turkey Wrap $4.75 "Fermilab should carry the torch for accelerator-produced neutrinos will be Ham & Pastrami Calzones $3.25 accelerator-based particle physics in studied over such a long distance. The Souther of the Border Burritos with the U.S. and the world, and an proposed NO A experiment would use Chips & Queso $4.75 enhanced proton source is a very a much larger detector to observe rare Wilson Hall Cafe Menu attractive option," said LRP chair Hugh interactions with the NuMI neutrinos. Chez Leon Montgomery. We can count on exciting results from these and perhaps other Fermilab A more intense proton beam could neutrino experiments for years to help produce more neutrinos for the come. NuMI/MINOS program and its successors - yielding data five times Sunny 60º/38º This week the Fermilab Proton Driver faster - and perhaps could open up the Workshop, will look at additional possibility of other new experiments Extended Forecast physics opportunities that an intense using a variety of secondary beams in source of protons would open up. As it the post-CDF and DZero era. Weather at Fermilab has in the past, neutrino physics will take center stage. By the end of 2004, Fermilab's Proton Driver Study Group will complete a Secon Level 3 report on the physics goals and the technical implementation of such an From Yahoo! News, October upgrade. While at least two proton 5, 2004 Search the Fermilab Today Archive driver designs are under consideration Three Americans Share Nobel Physics (see article in the May issue of Prize

FermiNews), this workshop will focus by Matt Moore, Associated Press on the physics side. Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Americans Fermilab Today is online at: The workshop will include plenary David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and http://www.fnal.gov/today/ sessions and parallel sessions divided Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Send comments and suggestions to into six working groups, Prize in physics on Tuesday for their [email protected] corresponding to different possible explanation of the force that binds kinds of experiments: Neutrino particles inside the atomic nucleus. Fermilab Today archive Oscillations, Neutrino Interactions, Muons, Kaons and Pions, Antiprotons, Their work has helped science get Fermilab Today PDF Version and Tevatron Collider. closer to "a theory for everything," the Fermilab Result of the Week archive Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Colloquium Strikes Up Band: said in awarding the physics prize. Fermilab Safety Tip of the Week Physics of Brass Read more archive Instruments From AAAS, October 1, 2004 Linear Collider News archive Updated Status of FY 2005 Fermilab Today classifieds Appropriations FY 2005 begins today, but the FY 2005 Subscribe/Unsubscribe to budget is far from complete. Only 1 of Fermilab Today the 13 appropriations bills (for DOD) has been signed into law. Congress has approved a continuing resolution (CR; temporary appropriations bill) extending funding for the 12 unsigned appropriations bills at FY 2004 levels through November 20. Congress will try to complete some of the remaining bills before the October 8 target adjournment date, but most will be

resolved in a post-election lame duck session in an omnibus appropriations Robert Preston as Harold Hill, "The Music bill. Man:" bandleader and acoustical Read more physicist. From the Interactions News When "76 Trombones Led the Big Wire, October 4, 2004 Parade" under the direction of "The Professor Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer Music Man," they were also Appointed as New Research Director demonstrating the effects of standing On its meeting on October 1, 2004, the waves inside a tube. Administrative Council of the Helmholtz center DESY appointed In his Fermilab Colloquium Professor Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer as the presentation, physicist Brian W. new research director for high-energy Holmes of San Jose State University physics. He takes over from Professor will expand on "The Physics of Brass Dr. Robert Klanner, who decided after Musical Instruments; or, Why French his five-year term of office to dedicate Horn Players Put Their Hand Inside the himself to teaching and research Bell," on Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 again. p.m. in Ramsey Auditorium. Holmes Read more will also build a trumpet during his talk, showing the acoustical significance of each segment of a Recreation Office Strength Training brass instrument: mouthpiece, conical Class lead pipe, cylindrical section and Free Class & Fall/Winter Schedule flared bell. There are bound to be There will be a FREE class on October additional surprises as well. 12. You must register with the Recreation Office for this class. If you "I have a trunk outside my office that are not a Recreation Facility member, he shipped here, and it's full of stuff," we will give you access for this class. said Colloquium host Cathy Newman The Muscle Toning Class schedule for Holmes (no relation) of PPD. "In my Fall/Winter is October 19 - November contacts with him about the 18. This 5 week class is $40.00. The 4 presentation, he said he needed a week class runs from November 23 to piano and piano player. When I asked December 21 and costs $32.00 Classes what kind of microphone he needed, are held on Tuesday and Thursday, his answer was, 'Oh, I'll be from 5:30 - 6:30, in the Recreation Facility exercise room. The registration walking around on deadline is the Friday before the start the stage and of the session. You must be a current tootling on a lot of facility member to participate. different Registration can be made in the instruments.'" Recreation Office, by mail (registration form found on the Recreation Newman Holmes, webpage) or by phone using a credit French Horn sponsoring her first card. Colloquium, said she encountered Holmes's presentation at Power Outage News an American Physical Society meeting MP9, MW9, and MAB a few years ago, and remembered it as October 9, Feeder 40 work will begin at one of the better talks of the 7:00 a.m.; no power to these areas for conference. "He's very lively," she eight hours said. Cancellations The following scheduled power Holmes concludes his talk with a outages have been canceled: October performance of Beethoven's Sonata in 5, 6, and 7 for Meson areas MS1, 2, 3, F, Op. 17 for horn and piano. He will MDB, MS6 and 7. The October 8 power play a valveless instrument similar to outage has also been cancelled for the those of Beethoven's time, offering a following Meson substations: ML5, 12, practical demonstration of why French & 14, and for the Meson Cryo Central horn players put their hand inside the building. bell.