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SLAC Reorganizes for Major Science Discovery
By
Neil Calder
Director Jonathan Dorfan recently announced
a complete reorganization of the structure and senior management of the
Laboratory. The new organizational structure is built around four new
Directorates—Photon Science, Particle and Particle Astrophysics, Linac
Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Construction and Operations. Two of the new
Directorates—Photon Science and Particle and Particle
Astrophysics—encompass SLAC’s current major research directions.
“Our
mission is to make discoveries in photon science and particle and
particle astrophysics and to operate a safe laboratory that employs and
trains the best and brightest,” said Dorfan. “The new management
structure adapts SLAC’s outstanding resources to that mission and gives
us renewed strength to complete it.”
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BABAR
Probes Rare B Quark Coupling
 By
Heather Rock Woods
In the world of elementary particles,
beauty couples preferentially to charm. BABAR
studies these common ’charm’ decays, where B mesons containing a b quark
(b for beauty, or bottom) decay to charm mesons containing a charm
quark.
However, enterprising
experimentalists have been intrigued by the less favored couplings
between b quarks and non-charm quarks because they are less understood
and not fully predictable. Physicists expect that exploring charmless
decays will provide new insight into the world of quarks bound in states
of matter.
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Inside In The Dark
By Nina Adelman Stolar
On Wednesday, May 18, about 8:00 a.m. people found themselves literally
in the dark throughout the Lab. Most headed outside to see how wide
spread the problem was and find out what had happened.
The SLAC community was very cooperative and responsive
during this genuine emergency. Staff were dispatched to survey the site
and began hooking up generators where there were critical needs to keep
systems alive. According to Frank O’Neill (RD) “The CEF group really
took a major role in securing the facility.”
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The Payroll Must
Go On!
By
Ron Barrett
What do you do when you have ~10,000 square
feet of computers with no electrical power, lighting or cooling and the
payroll is due in one day? Add
to that scenario the fact that the whole site is down with an estimated
up time after the deadline has passed. Well, that is exactly the
scenario we had at the Lab on Wednesday, May 18.
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