[Draw your reader in with an engaging

abstract. It is typically a short summary of

the document. When youre ready to add
your content, just click here and start
typing.]

Fermi Pleased
[Document subtitle]

Elgin

Fermilab Today - Tuesday, Jan. 24

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:26 AM
Mark as Unread
From:

"Fermilab Today" <today@fnal.gov>

To:

allhands@fnal.gov fermilabtoday@fnal.gov
Full Headers Printable View

For non-HTML users, Fermilab Today is available online at http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today

Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012

Subscribe | Contact Us | Archive | Classifieds | Guidelines | Help

Search

Calendar

Feature

Director's Corner

Have a safe day!

Innovation at Fermilab:
Liquid Argon Test Facility

Next step for the Long-Baseline

Neutrino Experiment

Tuesday, Jan. 24
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE
BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
THERE WILL BE NO
ACCELERATOR
PHYSICS AND
TECHNOLOGY
SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Wednesday, Jan. 25
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE
BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
4 p.m.
Fermilab Colloquium One West
Speaker: Hugh
Montgomery, Thomas
Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility
Title: Jefferson Lab: The
Next Ten Years and
Beyond

From left: Fermilab Deputy Director YoungKee Kim; Gina Rameika, PPD; Kevin
Bomstad and Jason Whittaker, Whittaker
Construction and Excavation; Dixon
Bogert, Fermilab; Mike Weis, DOE;
Fermilab Director Pier Oddone; Erik
Gottschalk, PPD. Photo: Reidar Hahn

Despite the biting cold and snow,

scientists and Fermilab personnel
gathered outside to break ground for
Fermilab's new Liquid Argon Test
Facility. The facility, expected to be
completed spring 2013, will house
liquid-argon based experiments.

The LBNE
collaboration is now
quite a formidable
enterprise with over
300 collaborators
from more than 60
institutions including
six national
laboratories, and it is
growing. The project
is very ambitious
with a program to
Fermilab Director
reach
Pier Oddone
unprecedented
sensitivity and precision for addressing
the neutrino mass hierarchy, CP
violation in neutrino mixing, the value of
the mixing parameters including
precision measurement of 13. While
the primary goal of LBNE is to study
neutrino oscillations it will also provide
new capabilities to search for nucleon
decay, observe neutrinos emitted by
supernovae in our galaxy and beyond,

Click here for NALCAL,

a weekly calendar with
links to additional
information.
Upcoming conferences
Campaigns
Take Five
Weather

Snow
31/4
Extended Forecast
Weather at Fermilab
Current Security Status
Secon Level 3

Scientists have speculated since the

1980s that liquid argon could be used
as a crash pad for high-energy
neutrinos and have subsequently
constructed several liquid-argon
neutrino detectors; the largest and most
prominent being ICARUS, the Imaging
Cosmic And Rare Underground
Signals, detector in Italy. The design of
the new MicroBooNE experiment
improves upon technology developed
for ICARUS and will allow scientists to
observe neutrinos with greater precision
and resolution.
Regina Rameika is the project manager
for the construction of the MicroBooNE
detector.
"The MicroBooNE detector that will first
use this facility is smaller than ICARUS,
but incorporates some advanced
designs," Rameika said.

Wilson Hall Cafe

Tuesday, Jan. 24
- Breakfast: Bagel
sandwich
- Tomato bisque soup
- Lemon pepper club
- Liver & onions
- Smart cuisine: Korean
garlic chicken
- Grilled chicken Casaer
salad wrap
- Assorted calzones
- Rio Grande taco salad
Wilson Hall Cafe Menu
Chez Leon
Wednesday, Jan. 25
Lunch
- Crispy chipotle lime
tilapia w/ avocado sauce
- Corn & black bean
salad
- Cold lime souffl
Friday, Jan. 27
Dinner
- French onion soup

MicroBooNE will use liquid argon as a

target for neutrinos generated in the
Booster neutrino beam. When the
neutrinos hit the argon nuclei, they
generate showers of charged particles
that then drift to an electrical detector.
The purer the argon, the further the
particles are able to drift. MicroBooNE
will use ultrapure argon to maximize the
distance these particles drift. This
model is more efficient, cost effective,
and has the potential to be scaled-up to
a much larger size than previous
detectors.
The MicroBooNE experiment will
provide another layer of data for using
the Booster neutrino beam. Not only will
scientists be able to observe particles
with the existing MiniBooNE detector,
but now they will be able to measure
neutrinos from the Booster neutrino
beam with a second, higher-resolution
detector.
"The MicroBooNE experiment will be
focused on understanding some
anomalies observed in the data from
the MiniBooNE experiment," Rameika
said. This project will also provide

and address other important topics in

physics and astrophysics.
Under the leadership of its elected
spokespersons, Bob Svoboda and
Milind Diwan, the collaboration has
gone through an exhaustive process to
make a series of major decisions that
affect the LBNE experimental
configuration. The latest decision in this
series, the selection of detector
technology, took place over the last few
weeks. Making these decisions has
involved physics studies, analysis of
the technical feasibility of various
configurations and external reviews
organized by the collaboration.
Last fall, after analyzing various options
for the generation of the beam at
Fermilab, the first major decision was
reached. There was unanimity in
selecting a beam configuration where
the beam first climbs a hill before
heading underground towards the
Homestake Mine. This configuration
makes construction easier, protects the
aquifer and minimizes the depth of the
near detector compared to the alternate
configurations.
Another important decision has been
the decision on the depth of the
experiment. There is a very strong
consensus that the physics reach and
breadth of the program is greatly
enhanced by building the facilities at a
depth of 4850 feet at Homestake. This
benefits the LBNE program but also will
make it possible for other smaller but
very important experiments to take
place. The direct search for dark matter
and the search for neutrino-less double
beta decay could take place
economically with the developments
made for LBNE. Together with LBNE
these experiments will be an important
part of the future national physics
program.
By far the toughest decision has been
the selection of the technology for the
detector. The decision is difficult for
good reasons: both the liquid-argon

- Medallions of beef with

merlot sauce
- Potato gratin
- Steamed green beans
- Marzipan cake w/
bittersweet chocolate
sauce

valuable insight into different designs

for liquid-argon detectors that could be
located in the LArTF once MicroBooNE
is complete.
Sarah Charley
Special Announcement

Chez Leon Menu

Call x3524 to make your
reservation.
Archives
Fermilab Today
Director's Corner
Result of the Week
Safety Tip of the Week
CMS Result of the Month
User University Profiles
ILC NewsLine
Info
Fermilab Today
is online at:
www.fnal.gov/today/
Send comments and
suggestions to:
today@fnal.gov
Visit the Fermilab
home page
Unsubscribe from
Fermilab Today

Fermilab Colloquium with Hugh

Montgomery - Jan. 25
Hugh Montgomery, director of the
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility and the former associate
director of research at Fermilab, will
give a lecture at 4 p.m. on Wednesday,
Jan. 25, in One West. The talk, titled,
"Jefferson Lab: The Next Ten Years
and Beyond," is part of the Fermilab
Colloquium series. Coffee will be
served before the talk at 3:30 p.m.
Correction

Correction: Fermilab Tuition

Assistance Program recipients
In the Friday, Jan. 20, issue of Fermilab
Today, a special announcement
congratulating the degree recipients
from Fermilab's Tuition Assistance
Program incorrectly stated who
recieved which degree. The listing
should have read that Martha Garcia,
FE, recieved an AA in Applied
Sciences, and Stephen Cozzens, AD,
recieved a BS in Business
Administration.
In the News

The perfect liquid - now even

more perfect
From the Vienna University of
Technology, Jan. 23, 2012.
Previous theories imposed a limit on
how 'liquid' fluids can be -- but new
calculations show that quark-gluonplasma in high-energy particle

TPC technology and the water

Cerenkov technology are viable options
with different strengths and
weaknesses. Both involve a significant
scale-up of existing technology,
although the challenge is greater for the
liquid-argon technology than for the
water. On the other hand, liquid-argon
technology offers great potential
because of the extraordinarily detailed
information on each neutrino event.
The decision-making process
established by the collaboration for the
technology choice called for the project
manager to make the final
recommendation before seeking the
concurrence of the Fermilab director,
the Laboratory Oversight Board and the
DOE. In the presence of consensus the
decision would have been relatively
easy. As the established process
developed, however, the decision
turned out to be a very difficult one as
explained in detail in the documentation
for the technology choice.
The decision is to build LBNE with
liquid-argon TPC technology. This
constitutes the preferred alternative as
we go into the CD-1 review. Back-up
alternatives must be presented at the
CD-1 review and we have a ready
alternative with the water Cerenkov
technology. Because a lot of work was
done on the water Cerenkov
technology we will make sure to
capture and complete the important
parts of that research effort. Most of the
effort in the next few months, however,
will go into studying all the aspects of
the liquid-argon detectors and
infrastructure. The LBNE experiment
built on this technology will be a
phenomenal achievement and one that
will require the most demanding work
from the laboratory and the
collaboration, integrating everyone in
this very ambitious enterprise.
Accelerator Update
Jan. 20-23

accelerators can be even have a lower

viscosity than this limit suggests
How liquid can a fluid be? This is a
question particle physicists at the
Vienna University of Technology have
been working on. The "most perfect
liquid" is nothing like water, but the
extremely hot quark-gluon-plasma
which is produced in heavy-ion
collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN. New theoretical results at
Vienna UT show that this quark-gluon
plasma could be even less viscous than
was deemed possible by previous
theories. The results were published in
Physical Review Letters and highlighted
as an "editors' selection".
Liquids and their Viscosity
Highly viscous liquids (such as honey)
are thick and have strong internal
friction, quantum liquids, such as super
fluid helium can exhibit extremely low
viscosity. In 2004, theorists claimed that
quantum theory provided a lower bound
for viscosity of fluids. Applying methods
from string theory, the lowest possible
ratio of viscosity to the entropy density
was predicted to be /4 (with the
Planck-constant ). Even super fluid
helium is far above this threshold. In
2005, measurements showed that
quark-gluon-plasma exhibits a viscosity
just barely above this limit. However,
this record for low viscosity can still be
broken, claims Dominik Steineder from
the Institute for Theoretical Physics at
Vienna UT. He obtained this
remarkable result working as a PhDstudent with Professor Anton Rebhan.

- Operators tuned and adjusted the HSource, the Linac quadrupole magnets
and the 750 KeV line
- The NuMI beam permit tripped off
several times
- A timing issue caused all the Linac
low-level RF stations and quadrupole
power supplies to trip off
- Fermilab will extend its current
delivery of protons to experiments by
two months, stopping around April 30
Read the Current Accelerator Update
Read the Early Bird Report
View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts
Announcements
Muscle toning class begins today
NALWO - Luncheon and tour on Jan.
26
Feb. weight management class added
Fermilab Arts Series presents
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Feb. 4
Argentine tango classes - Wednesdays,
through Feb. 8
Outlook 2010: Intro. - Feb. 22
Embedded Design with LabVIEW
FPGA and CompactRIO class
scheduled - Feb. 23
Introduction to LabVIEW scheduled Feb. 23
PowerPoint 2010: Intro. - Feb. 28
Word 2010: Intro Mar. 6

Read more
In the News

Research matters: Behind every

breakthrough lies first-class
infrastructure
From The Independent, Jan. 19, 2012.

Excel 2010: Intro. - Mar. 8

Access 2010: Intro. - Mar. 14
FRA scholarship applications due Apr.
1

World-class research needs facilities

that evolve and keep pace with its
advances

Fermilab Management Practices

courses are now available for
registration

Excellent researchers need excellent

facilities if they are to push forward the
frontiers of knowledge. In November
2011, researchers at CERN discovered
hints of the biggest breakthrough in the
history of particle physics, the Higgs
boson particle. Finding proof that the
Higgs boson exists would illuminate
why particles have certain mass and
help answer fundamental questions
about the creation of the universe.
Investment in this remarkable facility
has produced five Nobel Prizes and
generated countless discoveries, not
least the invention of the World Wide
Web, on which all of us now rely. It is
now the largest particle physics
laboratory in the world and UK
researchers are among those from
more than 20 countries who have the
opportunity to work there.

"5 Treasures" Qigong for stress relief

Research Councils UK gives

researchers access to a full range of
world-class facilities, both in the UK and
abroad, because we believe this is vital
if we are to remain research leaders.

January 2012 float holiday

NALWO - Volunteers needed for
English conversation
Tax presentation for users and visitors
International folk dancing Thursday
evenings in Kuhn Barn
Scottish country dancing Tuesday
evenings in Kuhn Village Barn
Abri Credit Union Appreciates Our
Members
Open badminton at the gym
Winter basketball league
Indoor soccer
Sam's Club announces membership
offer for employees

Read more
Atrium construction updates
Submit an announcement