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...last week the scientific equivalent of "thar she blows" echoed around the world. The news came from several hundred particle hunters working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, who presented compelling evidence that not one but 12 top quarks had briefly surfaced inside a mammoth detector in their...
...heavy, only the most energetic collisions in the Tevatron are capable of producing the particle at all. In addition, this king of quarks has such an infinitesimal lifetime that its presence can be inferred only from the whispery contrails of other particles into which it promptly decays. Thus the detector designed by Fermilab's scientists consists of more than 100,000 components, each intended to track different types of particles. A superconducting magnet, for example, helps measure the energy of electrons % and muons. The less these charged particles are bent by the electromagnetic field, the more energetic they...
Fermilab's collider detector, a complicated machine over three sto- ries high and weighing more than 5,000 tons,recorded emissions of top quarks from thecollisions, Brandenburg. Huth and Franklin allhelped to design the detector...
...Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Reading that often tin-eared update of the beloved King James, Macdonald wrote, "is like walking through an old city that has just been given, if not a saturation bombing, a thorough going-over." As a satirical gadfly, cultural critic and detector of cant, Macdonald was a worthy successor to the sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken...
Declaring himself "absolutely determined to get to the bottom" of the Ames spy affair, CIA Director R. James Woolsey announced that a review of "systematic" security problems at the agency, including overreliance on lie detector tests, is under...