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Website for Fermilab events: http://www.fnal.gov/faw/events.html
FOLK CLUB BARN DANCES
There are two Barn dances in November.
Sunday, Nov.10 at 6:30 p.m., the music is by
the Good Intentions Paving Co. with calling by
Paul Watkins. Sunday, Nov.17 at 2 p.m. the music
is by Danny Miller and Friends with calling by
Paul Ford. Barn dances are held in the Warrenville
Community Building and feature traditional square
and contra dances. Admission is $5 for adults,
$2 for age 12-18, and free for under 12 years
old. For more information contact Dave Harding
(x2971, harding@fnal.gov) or Lynn Garren (x2061,
garren@fnal.gov) or check the webpage at
http://www.fnal.gov/orgs/folkclub/.
ASK-A-SCIENTIST AT WILSON HALL
The popular Ask-a-Scientist program
has returned to the 15th floor of Wilson Hall, every
Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Scientists will meet
visitors to answer questions ranging from “What is
dark matter?” to “How do you accelerate a particle
close to the speed of light?” Visitors must use the
Pine Street entrance, and obtain the special “Ask-
A-Scientist” pass to proceed to Wilson Hall.
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the latest issue and to subscribe to the newsletter.
Lecture Series
FERMILAB ACCELERATORS: PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE
Bill Foster, Fermilab physicist
Friday, Nov.8, 2002
Admission: $5
Thirty-five years ago Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory began its transition from a marshy patch
of farmland to the highest energy Particle Physics
laboratory in the world. Under the brilliant direction
of Dr.Robert R.Wilson, a group of hardy pioneers
designed and constructed the world’s most powerful
subatomic particle accelerator and the international
laboratory to conduct experiments on its particle
beams. This original endeavor, as audacious in
retrospect as it was at the time, will be recalled in
photographs,anecdotes, and a whirlwind tour of
how accelerators work in Dr.Foster’s talk, Fermilab
Accelerators: Past, Present and Future, taking
place in Fermilab’s Ramsey Auditorium on Friday,
Nov.8 at 8 p.m.
Admission to Fermilab Accelerators is $5. On the
evening of the event, the box office opens at 7 p.m.
and will-call tickets can be picked up, or available
tickets purchased, at that time. At this time only the
Pine Street Entrance (from Kirk Road in Batavia)is
open.
FERMILAB ARTS SERIES 2002-2003 SEASON
Battlefield Band
November 23, 2002
Tickets - $19 ($10 ages 18 and under)
Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music, and
fired by the strength of today’s Scottish cultural
scene, the Battlefield Band mixes old songs with
new material and performs them on a unique fusion
of ancient and modern instruments.
Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice
Featuring Liz Story, Will Ackerman, and
Samite of Uganda
December 7, 2002
Tickets - $25 ($13 ages 18 and under)
This collection of Windham Hill artists features
pianist Liz Story, guitarist and Windham Hill founder
Will Ackerman, and percussionist Samite of
Uganda.
Libana
February 8, 2003
Tickets - $17 ($9 ages 18 and under)
Libana is now in its 23rd season of researching,
performing, and celebrating songs, dances, and
instrumental music of women from around the
world.
Dragon’s Tale: Nai-Ni Chen Dance
March 8, 2003
Tickets- $19 ($10 ages 18 and under)
Bringing to life the culture and traditions of
China, this full-length family show leaves children
mesmerized at each enchanting, astounding dance,
and adults equally caught up in the magic of it all.
Quartetto Gelato
April 5, 2003
Tickets - $21 ($11 ages 18 and under)
As the engaging innovators of a fresh approach
to classical music, Quartetto Gelato has won
the hearts of audiences worldwide since their
remarkable 1994 debut season.
Orquesta Aragon
May 10, 2003
Tickets - $26 ($13 ages 18 and under)
Fermilab is pleased to provide a rare opportunity
to see one of the most influential groups in
Cuban music.
Gallery Chamber Series
Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m.
Three Concert Series - $36p
After a sell-out inaugural season, Fermilab is
pleased to again present the Gallery Chamber
Series, a set of three Sunday afternoon concerts
taking place in the Fermilab Art Gallery on the
second floor of Wilson Hall. This year’s series: the
Chicago Chamber Musicians Brass on January 26;
David Schrader, performing 16th and 17th century
music for the Clavichord and Italian Harpsichord
on February 16; the Scholars of Cambrai, an
ensemble of two lutes, soprano and tenor,
performing music of the Renaissance era
on March 23.
Tickets for all Fermilab Events are available
now. For further information or telephone
reservations, call 630/840-ARTS weekdays
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Additional information
is available at www.fnal.gov/culture.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
TO FERMINEWS:
I see you’ve made a fix to INFN and CERN in your
“Corrections ”(18 October 2002) but not to the
substantive error about what NuTeV does — we
don’t measure the W-mass. I’ve now mentioned
it in e-mails and directly to your talented and lovely
editor three times from the first time it was wrong
in an issue last year. Inexplicably, you’ve never
acknowledged the mistake or corrected it and
I can only assume it’s a horrible quantum
fluctuation. The original mistake is in
www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/more/acronyms.html
and you keep picking it up from there. NuTeV
measures the ratio of neutral to charged current
cross-sections in both neutrino and antineutrino
deep-inelastic scattering, thereby extracting both
the weak mixing angle and the relative strength
of the neutral and charged current interactions.
We can interpret the measurement as an indirect
determination of the W mass. A discrepancy from
the direct measurement may be interpreted as
physics outside the Standard Model, and indeed
we have an approximately three-sigma discrepancy
(G.P.Zeller et al.,Phys.Rev.Lett.88:091802,2002.)
Thanks.
Bob Bernstein
NuTeV co-spokesperson
P.S.:If you look at the bottom picture on
the Fermilab home page, Kevin McFarland,
Geralyn Zeller, and Mike Shaevitz are pointing
at this mistake.
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