Mammoth Database Wins Grand Prize
By Mason Inman
 SLAC not only boasts the world’s longest building, but also the world’s
largest recognized database. The
BABAR
database—now containing about 900 terabytes, or 900,000
gigabytes—recently earned a Grand Prize in a prestigious annual survey
of very large databases, the Winter Corporation’s Top Ten.
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Director’s Corner
By Jonathan DorfanThe
mills of international high energy physics may grind slowly, but they
certainly grind very, very fine. Several laboratories around the world
have been developing conceptual designs, technologies and hardware for a
linear collider with an energy range of 500 GeV to 1 TeV. The time has
come to choose and the selection process is rigorous.
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BABAR
to Overhaul Muon Detector
By Davide Castelvecchi
BABAR
is getting ready for the most extensive overhaul in its
five years of operation. During the accelerator’s and detector’s yearly
down time, starting August 1 this year and again next summer, crews will
completely replace the barrel part of the muon system, one of BABAR’s
five main particle detectors.
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APS Awards
By David Harris
Three SLAC researchers were awarded prizes at the annual American
Physical Society meeting in Denver on May 2. John Seeman (AD) shared
with Katsunobu Oide (KEK) the Robert R. Wilson Prize, awarded ‘for
technical leadership and direct contributions to the development of high
luminosity B factories at KEK and SLAC. These machines have set new
world records for luminosities in colliding-beam storage rings.’
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Boeheim Photos on Exhibit in Redwood City
Chuck Boeheim (SCS) and his family spent much of last August touring the
island of Shikoku in Japan. They drove 2,000 kilometers of winding
back-country roads to visit the famous 88 temples of that island, which
date back to the eighth-century monk Kobo Daishi.
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Celebrate Juneteenth at SLAC!
By Jasmine Rogers
This year the Black Association of SLAC Employees (BASE) invites you to
come and join our 15th annual Juneteenth Celebration!BASE hosts this annual event to celebrate
the end of slavery in this country as well as the gathering of friends
and family. Juneteenth began in Texas and Arkansas and celebrations are
now held nationwide.
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