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BABAR
Find New Massive Particle
By
Heather Rock Woods
On Thursday, June 30, at the international
Lepton-Photon symposium in Uppsala, Sweden, the BABAR
collaboration announced the discovery of a new massive particle with
curious behavior. The particle
is produced in collisions between electrons and their antimatter
counterparts, called positrons. For the moment the particle has been
named Y(4260), reflecting the measured mass of 4260 Mega-electron volts
but the unknown nature of the state. The discovery is the subject of a
paper recently submitted to Physical Review Letters.
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KIPAC
Launches New Public Website
By
Jennifer Formichelli
On Wednesday, July 6, the Kavli Institute
for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) launched a new website. KIPAC, an independent laboratory of
Stanford University, is part of the newly-formed Particle & Particle
Astrophysics science area of SLAC, and the new website is intended to
showcase the research of KIPAC.
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 Breeding
Bluebirds
By
Monica Bobra
Since May 2004, miniature wooden
houses have hung from various trees around the SLAC campus. Constructed to
accommodate a dwindling species called the Western Bluebird, the six
homes were simply an initial trial “just to get an idea of bluebird
activity,” said Kirk Stoddard (EPR). Now SLAC plays an active role in
Western Bluebird preservation.
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 Summer
Students Square the Circle at SLAC
By
Francoise Chanut
How many summer students does it take to
coil 693 feet of RG220 coaxial cable neatly inside a square box? Five,
according to John Krzaszczak (ESD).
He recently rounded up five summer students and four SLAC
employees, who together loaded three cables totaling approximately 700
pounds into an 800 pound wood crate. The cables will be shipped to Japan
later this summer.
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