[en] The announcement of the location of the SSC at the site near Waxahachie, Texas was made in January, 1989. Since then a great many important steps have been taken toward the start of the new Laboratory. Some 900 people have been brought to the site as the starting nucleus of the staff that will ultimate number about 2200. A design baseline has been completed that includes a conceptual design for the accelerator, and the detectors. Also, the process has begun to determine the configuration of detectors that will be built for the SSC. This process has several steps, and now the first of these has been taken: The detector collaborations have submitted the Expression of Interest to the Laboratory. These were reviewed by Laboratory management and the Physics Advisory Committee in July, 1990 and recommendations were made to the collaborations. Decisions were deferred for all of the detectors. But perhaps the most significant recommendation was the request to reduce the size and cost of the general purpose detectors. The detector collaborations are now reviewing their initial designs to prepare for the Letters of Intent, the next step in the detector planning process. This is clearly a difficult and crucial step in that the redesign of the detectors must be done with minimal reduction in detector quality. It is an interesting time in the development of the new laboratory, and a crucial time for the ultimate physics that will be done at the SSC

[en] The Tevatron Upgrade poses some interesting prospects for the Fixed-Target program if an option to extract the high energy proton beam is preserved. This paper presents a summary of the advantages of increased energy for fixed target experiments, and evaluates some of the more challenging technical issues. In particular, Bottom production, muon and neutrino interactions, and polarized /bar p/ experiments would benefit substantially from a higher energy primary beam. The new Main Injector will also be important for fixed target experiments as a source for test beams and intense kaon and neutrino beams. 4 refs., 2 tabs

[en] This document was developed at the request of the Physics Advisory Committee of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to review the general subject of test beams with the purpose of establishing general policy and guidelines for consideration of future test beam requests. The recommendations stated here should be subject to periodic review, since the Laboratory position must change as needs and available resources change

[en] Several examples will be given of the use of materials in particle detectors, especially in high radiation environments. Some of these include silicon detectors for tracking close to the interaction vertex, where radiation levels are high. In this application, the material is judged by its effectiveness in use as a medium for particle detection, where the mechanism for particle detection is ionization loss, and the function of the material is to provide good signal transmission with minimal distortion. Another example includes cryogenics used for the detector spectrometer magnets, and for some of the calorimetry, especially for Liquid Argon Calorimeters. Also the beam vacuum vessel may be made of very thin wall Beryllium to minimize particle interactions in the material. In this paper these and other examples of special material requirements for particle detectors are presented

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[en] The Tevatron Upgrade poses some interesting prospects for the Fixed Target program if an option to extract he high energy proton beam is preserved. This paper presents a summary of the advantages of increased energy for fixed target experiments, and evaluates some of the more challenging technical issues. In particular, Bottom production, muon and neutrino interactions, and polarized bar p experiments would benefit substantially from a higher energy primary beam. The new Main Injector will also be important for fixed target experiments as a source for test beams and intense kaon and neutrino beams

[en] A proposal [1] will be submitted to Fermilab for a Booster Neutrino Experiment (BooNE) to confirm the discovery of neutrino oscillations at LANL using a Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Dtetector (LSND). The location of the experiment at the Fermilab Booster will provide for higher signal rates than were possible at LSND by about an order of magnitude. BooNE will also provide an opportunity for observing the signal under very different conditions and with different systematics than were present at LSND. copyright 1998 American Institute of Physics

[en] This paper will give an overview of the various impacts of sand and dust storms on agriculture and then address the potential applications of a Sand and Dust Storm Warning System (SDSWS) for agricultural users. Sand and dust storms have many negative impacts on the agricultural sector including: reducing crop yields by burial of seedlings under sand deposits, the loss of plant tissue and reduced photosynthetic activity as a result of sandblasting, delaying plant development, increasing end-of-season drought risk, causing injury and reduced productivity of livestock, increasing soil erosion and accelerating the process of land degradation and desertification, filling up irrigation canals with sediments, covering transportation routes, affecting water quality of rivers and streams, and affecting air quality. One positive impact is the fertilization of soil minerals to terrestrial ecosystems. There are several potential agricultural applications of a SDSWS. The first is to alert agricultural communities farmers to take preventive action in the near-term such as harvesting maturing crops (vegetables, grain), sheltering livestock, and strengthening infrastructure (houses, roads, grain storage) for the storm. Also, the products of a SDSWS could be used in for monitoring potential locust movement and post-storm crop damage assessments. An archive of SDSWS products (movement, amount of sand and dust) could be used in researching plant and animal pathogen movement and the relationship of sand and dust storms to disease outbreaks and in developing improved soil erosion and land degradation models.

[en] The topics of Instrumentation, Test Beams and SSC R and D obviously cover a broad range of interests, and the activities of this working group were likewise diverse in scope. With regard to instrumentation, the emphasis was on R and D requirements for the next decade as determined by projected collider and fixed-target programs. Requirements for electronics were also reviewed, in anticipation of the need to operate at higher luminosity in collider runs, and at rates up to 53MHz in fixed-target runs. Test beam requirements are derived from R and D needs for detectors and electronics, and by the new requirements brought on by the SSC. Special topics were also considered with regard to silicon electromagnetic calorimetry and TRD's

[en] In 2003 a simple digital level system was developed to allow for rapid roll measurements of all dipoles and quadrupoles in the Tevatron. The system uses a Mitutoyo digital level and a PC running MS WINDOWS XP and LAB VIEW to acquire data on the upstream and downstream roll of each magnet. The system is sufficiently simple that all 1,000 magnets in the Tevatron can be measured in less than 3 days. The data can be quickly processed allowing for correction of rolled magnets by the Fermilab alignment group. Data will be presented showing the state of the Tevatron in 2003 and the changes in rolls as measured in each shutdown since then