Fermilab Today Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 Calendar Photo of the Day Fermilab Result of the Week Have a safe day! Fermilab kicks off lab's Seeing clearly with photons Thursday, Feb. 11 Engineers Week 2010 1:30-4 p.m. Special LPC lecture - One West Speaker: Dan Green, Fermilab Title:Early LHC Data 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: Elvira Gamiz, Fermilab Title: Phenomenology of Fermilab's engineers gather for a group photo in Neutral B-Meson Mixing and celebration of Engineers Week 2010. Decays Constants To kick off Engineers Week at Fermilab on 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, Director Pier Oddone Events in which two photons are produced are DIRECTOR'S COFFEE addressed all engineers at a talk in Ramsey natural laboratories in which to study collisions Auditorium. BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over between quarks. These studies can unambiguously 4 p.m. rule out certain theoretical calculations. Accelerator Physics and Oddone gave an overview of Fermilab's future projects and highlighted how crucial engineers With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, this Technology Seminar - One are to the laboratory. Result of the Week draws what might seem an West unlikely analogy between physics and dating. Speaker: Eliana Gianfelice- "All the big dreams we can cook up would not Wendt, Fermilab be realized if we didn't have your help," he Contrary to Mom’s best advice, some people on Title: Abort Gap Cleaning at said. a first date might try to appear smarter, richer or LHC better than they really are. Indeed, a big point of Fermilab's Engineers Week celebration will dating is to see through the façade to get a Friday, Feb. 12 continue throughout the week of Feb. 15 with sense of the real person. 3:30 p.m. tours, discussions and other events. View the DIRECTOR'S COFFEE schedule of events The situation is similar at a hadron collider. The BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Tevatron collides the partons (quarks and 4 p.m. From symmetry gluons) in the particle beam, and DZero tries to Joint Experimental-Theoretical study the details of these collisions. The Physics Seminar - One West Preserving the data harvest problem is that physicists never see a parton Speaker: Jason Steffen, coming out of the collision. Interactions after the Fermilab collision convert the partons into jets, which are Title: First Results from the sprays of particles going in the same direction. Kepler Mission Thus experimenters do not see the bare collision but rather something distorted by these Click here for NALCAL, secondary interactions. a weekly calendar with One way physicists can get a view of the real links to additional collision is to study events in which photons are information. generated. Photons undergo no secondary Upcoming conferences interactions and thus reveal precisely what Campaigns happened in the initial interaction. 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These studies site. taking data on the decays of subatomic unambiguously demonstrated the weakness of particles called B mesons. But that was hardly the simplest calculations and showed the need Weather the end of the story for the 500 scientists for a more careful theoretical treatment, working on the experiment. In November they including a technique called resummation. This Sunny celebrated the publication of their 400th paper, clear picture of the underlying collision is 18°/0° and they expect the next few years will yield at invaluable. least 100 more. Extended Forecast If you happen to be going on a first date this Weather at Fermilab These BaBar results and discoveries stem Valentine’s Day, remember your Mom’s advice from more than two million megabytes of data. and “just be yourself.” Or, in keeping with the Current Security As impressive as this number is, it’s only a theme of this article, be a photon, not a parton. 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