Wednesday - April 5, 2006
SLAC Today is
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In this issue:
B Factory - Full Steam Ahead
People Today: Diana Rogers' Love - Wildlife Photography
SLACSpeak: R2A2 - A Sci-Fi Robot?
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Wednesday - April 5, 2006 |
The two damaged ceramic tiles that caused PEP-II and BaBar to run at low
luminosity. (Click on image to see the damaged tiles in context.)
B Factory - Full Steam AheadThe PEP-II and BaBar teams have found and fixed the vacuum problem that had limited luminosity to about half normal values for the past three months. The problem was due to electrical arcing that damaged two ceramic tiles in the center of a critical vacuum system bellows near the BaBar detector. This damage created small, sudden releases of ceramic particles that temporarily spiked vacuum pressure, created background in the detector, and ultimately tripped off the beam. Since Monday morning, the PEP-II rings have once again been running at high current, well above the currents that had previously caused the arcing. BaBar is already taking data again while the vacuum is being "scrubbed" back to pristine conditions, a normal procedure after the accelerator is turned back on. "Everybody is very pleased and looking forward to resuming our plans for tripling the data set," said BaBar spokesman David MacFarlane. Read more... |
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 Diana Rogers' Love: Wildlife Photography
In her years of communing with the world of nature, Rogers has formed a special connection to animals. "You have to be very aware of one thing: their behavior is dictated by a 'predator-prey' logic and you must play by the rules," she says. According to Rogers, the moment you lock eyes with an animal, you must stop and let the animal decide whether you are predator or prey. If you move forward, the animal will most likely determine you are a predator and respond in kind. But if you remain still, she says, it will consider you prey and simply continue with what it was doing. "Wherever there are animals I will be there, trying to get the pictures," she says. Rogers' strikingly beautiful wildlife photos coupled with story lines can be found on her website, www.crystal-reflections.com. |
R2A2: A Sci-Fi Robot?
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"Wildlife photography is my passion and my joy," SLAC Photographer Diana Rogers says with a smile.
"It's really cool the way it started. I began doing photo story-boards on my website with pictures
and text like 'A Day at the San Francisco Zoo.'" Soon after, Rogers began receiving emails from people
who were housebound, thanking her for taking them on a trip to the zoo. Thus encouraged, her avocation
began to grow.
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