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1-Oct-2003
Fermilab <I>Today</I> launches Result of the Week
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermilab's daily online news service, Fermilab Today, launched a new weekly feature on September 18--the Fermilab Result of the Week. Each Thursday, FT will bring readers a new scientific result from ongoing research at Fermilab.
1-Sep-2003
Startup of MINOS
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Scientists of the MINOS collaboration announced the official start of data-taking with the 6,000-ton detector for the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search on Thursday, August 14. Physicists will use the MINOS detector, located deep in an historic iron mine in northern Minnesota, to explore the phenomenon of neutrino mass.
1-Sep-2003
Lepton Photon 2003: A week of interactions
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Each day, they filled Wilson Hall's Ramsey Auditorium--some 800 representatives of long careers and future hopes in the global community of high-energy physics.
11-Jul-2003
Astronomical X-ray bursters measured at Argonne
DOE/Argonne National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have precisely measured the masses of nuclear isotopes that exist for only fractions of a second or can only be produced in such tiny amounts as to be almost nonexistent in the laboratory. Some isotopes had their masses accurately measured for the first time.
The results help explain the characteristic X-ray spectrum and luminosities of strange astronomical objects called "X-ray bursters."
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- DOE/US Department of Energy, Nuclear Science Division, National Sciences and Research Council of Canada
27-Jun-2003
MINOS: Last plane at Soudan
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
After four years of work in a former iron mine a half-mile underground, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search collaboration celebrated a milestone for the ambitious MINOS particle physics experiment. On June 5, technicians erected the last of 485 house-high detector planes of steel and plastic in the Soudan Underground Laboratory in Soudan, Minnesota.
27-Jun-2003
RunII status and prospects
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
In mid-August, just a few weeks from now, CDF and DZero experimenters will present the first full round of Run II physics results at the Lepton-Photon Symposium at Fermilab.
27-Jun-2003
Why accelerators matter
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Accelerators are also crucial to realizing the opportunities to dramatically advance our understanding of the universe and the laws that govern it. Not only can accelerators reveal much about the fundamental particles and forces, but also they can make discoveries that are critical to understanding the cosmos.
13-Jun-2003
Fermilab users blend backgrounds and cultures in the pursuit of science
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermilab users are defined as scientists who are members of experimental collaborations classified as active in the annually published "Fermilab Research Program Workbook." There are more than 2,600 of them, from 213 laboratories and universities the world over; from 99 institutions representing 34 states in the U.S., and another 114 institutions representing 31 countries.
9-May-2003
Answering the call
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
From 10-ton magnets to callibrations, the Technical Division's Material Control Department is one of the vital organs at Fermilab.