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GLAST Test Bed Complete By
Davide Castelvecchi
 Peeking through the glass doors of a room
in Bldg. 84, the occasional passer-by puzzles at a giant, revolving
electronics contraption skewered on what looks like a cow-sized spit.
The imposing apparatus, completed last month, is the Large Area
Telescope (LAT) Test Bed, a hardware simulator part of the Gamma-Ray
Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) development.
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Director’s Corner
By Jonathan DorfanWithout exception,
SLAC’s great accomplishments have been due to the collective efforts of
the staff—everyone cooperating together as a ‘team’ to conquer mountains
both big and small. We now need the participation of the
full SLAC team to reduce our accident rates and to help bring injured
employees back to health and back to work. While we can be very proud of
SLAC’s historical safety record, we had significantly more accidents
last year than the year before.
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All are Invited to Kavli Ground Breaking
By Jennifer Formichelli
 The
ground breaking ceremony for The Fred Kavli Building at SLAC, the new
home of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC),
will be held on Monday, June 28, at 4 p.m. on the Kavli Building site in
front of the Research Office Research Building (ROB).
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Richard Helm, Early Beam Dynamicist, and
a Bit of SLAC History By
Gregory Loew When Richard Helm
died in Palo Alto on May 2, SLAC lost the first member of its staff who
made beam dynamics his full time occupation. Helm studied at Stanford
University and earned his Ph.D. in 1956 as part of Robert Hofstadter’s
team engaged
in the famous electron scattering experiments which measured the
cross-sections of many nuclei.
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Luda Fieguth: EPA
Champion of Green Government
By Wayne Heiser
Luda Fieguth (SEM) received an award for energy efficiency from Region 9
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on June 2. The
Champion of Green Government award is given annually to federally funded
facilities for efforts to prevent pollution and to exercise
environmental stewardship.
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Old Equations Tell New Stories
By Davide Castelvecchi
Future experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at the Tevatron
and at the Linear Collider will hunt for the elusive particles that
could exist beyond the Standard Model. Finding new particles amidst the
barrage of old ones produced by any collision may require calculating
Standard Model predictions with unprecedented precision.
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