Friday Flyer - March 17, 2017

Spotlight on Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: For QuarkNet, Fermilab is not only home for the Fermilab/UChicago QuarkNet Center but also one of our two major hubs. (The other is Notre Dame.) Three of our staff and our spokesperson call it home, and two staff are Fermilab users. The Fermilab Office of Education and Public Outreach offers vital support; for example, LaMargo Gill edits our documents, including this newsletter, for style. Gayle Millman schedules meeting rooms, handles travel and much more. Fermilab physicists provide vital help to moderate International Masterclass videoconferences. Add to this Data Camp and meetings at the Lab, and you can see that the Lab is really important to QuarkNet. And it is a great, exciting laboratory! If you have not brought your students to Fermilab, think about it!

News from QuarkNet Central: International Muon Week 2017 is wrapping up! Watch this space in coming weeks for results. International Masterclasses 2017 are in full swing! Check them out on Twitter and Facebook! 

Physics Experiment Roundup: How strong is strong? Read what symmetry reports. What's next on the gravitational wave front? APS News gets the vibe from LIGO. And dentists ask, Do accelerators get cavities? Sort of, says symmetry.

This just in! We're a-twitter! Why? How about five new particles (or one new particle in five states) found in one discovery from LHCb? Read the CERN article, check it out at the LHCb website, and read the paper in arXiv!

Resources: How weak is weak? Don Lincoln has a video for that.

Just for Fun: Here is a valuable, if odd, astronomy tip from XKCD. Taking a break from cool physics, here is warm physics . . . of sunsets.

QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu