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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Fermilab Employees Sing in Tuesday, December 20 Three Different Languages The Good, The Bad and The 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - Ugly 2nd Flr X-Over As we close this calendar year we can all There will be no Accelerator and reflect on a dramatic year for Fermilab, Technology Seminar today. with as many twists and turns as a good Wednesday, December 21 Sergio Leone 11:00 a.m. Fermilab ILC R&D Meeting - "spaghetti western." The Fermi Singers preformed last Thursday 1 West at lunch in the Ramsey auditorium. Speakers: S. Mishra and Others, The year started on Fermilab Last Thursday's Fermi Singer's concert a distinctly painful 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - was as much about physics--and the note. The Pier Oddone 2nd Flr X-Over international community--as it was about cancellation of BTeV Title: Report on ILC-GDE Meeting at Christmas. The final song of the after several years of arduous battles to Frascati afternoon, "Up and Out," set to the tune have the project approved and supported Note: There will be no Colloquium Today of "Deck the Halls," described the journey by both the agencies and the physics of a from the Cockroft-Walton community. Going ahead with BTeV through the , without missing a while developing the vigorous ILC R&D Partly Cloudy 19º/5º beat (or a rhyme). The words were program that we and our community written by Choir Director Stephen demand became impossible under the Extended Forecast Pordes. present and projected budgets. The BTeV collaboration did an outstanding Weather at Fermilab Other songs had an international flavor: job getting ready to build the detector.

Brahms' "Erlaube Mir" and "In Stiller Although cancelling BeTeV was a Nacht" were sung in German, and "Mata neccessary decision, it was del Anima Sola" was performed in Secon Level 3 heartbreaking to see their efforts come to Spanish. Before transitioning from one naught. language to another, individual singers came forward to explain the origin and At the same , the difficult budget for Tuesday, December 20 meaning of the next batch of songs. the year led to a significant reduction in - Creamy Turkey Vegetable Natalia Ratnikova introduced "Mata del , an that is always traumatic - Chicken Gyros Anima Sola," a Venezuelan song that for the employees affected and the - Salisbury Steaks w/Mushroom Au Jus translates to "Tree of the Lonely Soul," institution. It was the price we had to pay - Chicken Cacciatore about a lone tree by the side of a river. in order to have a healthy laboratory in - Italian Panini w/Provolone "You can almost hear the water in it," she the future. - Philly Cheese Stromboli said. The song had a beat-box quality, - Closed and the singers provided a staccato The discovery of tritium in a creek rhythm and harmony for the solo, sung leaving the laboratory, even though it The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, by tenor Terry Hart. English-language was a very small release, was bad. We Master Card, Discover and American pieces included "Moon River" from have taken and will take measures to

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Express at Cash Register #1. Breakfast at Tiffany's and a madrigal, make sure that we prevent such releases "April is in My Mistress' Face." in the future. And every single accident Wilson Hall Cafe Menu and day of work lost due to injury was "I think it's great that we have a Russian bad. introducing a Venezuelan song in the Wednesday, December 21 United States," said Pordes. "This group, Closed The year also brought us many good like the lab, has an international flavor." things. We achieved record after record Thursday, December 22 in the performance of the Tevatron. The The Fermi Singers practice every Closed cooling of has been Wednesday at lunchtime, and anyone spectacularly successful. The machine can join. You can come to practice in Chez Leon Menu now promises a great run of physics for Ramsey Auditorium if you're interested, Call x4512 to make your reservation. the next few years. The production of or visit the Website for more information. physics results by CDF and D0 is way The Singers will be start working on new up. We will not be surprised if they make Search the Fermilab Today Archive music in January, so it's a good time to important discoveries. We inaugurated stop by. Minos with the help of our strong —Siri Steiner supporters, Speaker of the House Dennis

Hastert, and the Director of the Office of Fermilab Today is online at: http://www. Science Ray Orbach. Minos will be fnal.gov/today/ From World Science reporting physics results less than a year December 17, 2005: after turn on, after a very successful data- Send comments and suggestions to Long-sought “” may taking run. MiniBoone has doubled the [email protected] be found, physicist says amount of data collected in previous

Fermilab Today archive years and the physics community eagerly Physicists have been on a three awaits the results. The Sloan Digital Sky Fermilab Today PDF Version decades’ long search for a strange type Survey has been extended after a great of subatomic particle called a glueball. contribution to the astrophysics Fermilab Result of the Week archive community. CDMS has by far the best

Fermilab Safety Tip of the Week archive But the hunt may be almost, or already, limit on the direct detection of dark over, a researcher claims. And if that’s and simple extensions open the Linear Collider News archive true, it could clarify what ’s most possibility of great discoveries. The fundamental are. Fermilab Today classifieds was inaugurated this fall and results on the Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Fermilab Today The glueball quest is connected with a highest cosmic rays are starting popular theory called to come out. It was great to see CMS chromodynamics, which claims matter’s being assembled at CERN and the most basic components are tiny entities magnets built at Fermilab installed in the called . Other particles, called LHC. “,” act as a “glue” that binds

quarks together to form the and This year, the Office of Science signaled of the . its interest in exploring the possibility of hosting the ILC in the US. More Most particle physicists consider the importantly, it stated that if the ILC is built theory definitive; -smashing in the US, Fermilab will be the host experiments have confirmed it, says

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Michael Chanowitz, a theoretical laboratory. Our efforts on the ILC are physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National increasing rapidly. The Global Design Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Effort is launched and successfully Read More guiding the world's design effort. Fermilab is a stronger participant in the GDE every day that goes by. We are determined to the US and Fermilab in the strongest position to host the ILC. Our neighboring communities have been extraordinarily supportive, even through difficult issues like the Indian Creek release. The Community Task Force continues to provide advice to us on many issues including the development of the ILC at Fermilab. We have started to develop the relations with the State of Illinois that will be essential if we are to host the ILC here.

In my transition to Fermilab, I have received great help from all of you. I have felt welcomed and supported by you. I also have received the support of DOE's Ray Orbach, Robin Staffin, Joanna Livengood and thier offices. As we close the year I would like to express my appreciation to all of you. I wish you and your families a happy holiday season and to all of us a prosperous and successful New Year.

December 16 - 19 - During the 72 hour period operations established three stores that provided the experiments with 56 hours and 30 minutes of luminosity. Read the Current Accelerator Update Read the Early Bird Report View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts

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