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Treatment of cancers using gamma rays.','Day # 4 NASA All stars 18 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','20-revision-6','','','2013-07-18 14:13:31','2013-07-18 19:13:31','',20,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/20-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(27,16,'2013-07-18 15:37:39','2013-07-18 20:37:39','','20130718-153738.jpg','','inherit','closed','closed','','20130718-153738-jpg','','','2013-07-18 15:37:39','2013-07-18 20:37:39','',20,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130718-153738.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(28,16,'2013-07-18 15:36:22','2013-07-18 20:36:22','Reading on Gamma rays.\nStudent Activity building a electromagnetic spectrum. Teacher demonstration of diffraction grading using a CD.\nJulia discussed the teacher lesson plan development for the course. Topics include :\nOptical history\nOptical science\nOpticalTools\nOptical impact\nX-ray history\nX-ray tools\nX-ray impact\n\nSkype conference with scientist  Dieter Hartman \n\nRead article \" A crooked path\" Gamma Rays.\nTopics in QA \nGamma ray bursts\nIsotopes\nSpace laboratory , eg. Sun\nApplications of gamma rays in medicine, home land security, detection of  substances that are threat to the nation. Treatment of cancers using gamma rays. Gamma knife surgery.\nStudents  and teachers signed up for \'Galaxy Zoo\'\nGalaxy Zoo Tutorial  assists in classifying galaxies.\nWebsites:\nEmansarhan2.cuipblogs.net/\nTutorial: isaacrob.cuipblogs.net/','Day # 4 NASA All stars 18 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','20-revision-7','','','2013-07-18 15:36:22','2013-07-18 20:36:22','',20,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/20-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(29,16,'2013-07-19 12:27:22','2013-07-19 17:27:22','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.\nStudents built their own spectroscope.\n\n\n<br /><br />\n\n\n\nRuss demonstrating spectrum<br /><br /><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\"><img src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-152000.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" /></a><br /><br /><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130722-102349.jpg\"><img src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130722-102349.jpg\" alt=\"20130722-102349.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" /></a>','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-5-nasa-all-stars','','','2013-07-22 10:24:12','2013-07-22 15:24:12','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=29',0,'post','',0),(30,16,'2013-07-19 12:27:23','2013-07-19 17:27:23','','Day # 5 NASA All Stars','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision','','','2013-07-19 12:27:23','2013-07-19 17:27:23','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(31,16,'2013-07-19 12:28:03','2013-07-19 17:28:03','','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-2','','','2013-07-19 12:28:03','2013-07-19 17:28:03','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(73,16,'2013-07-30 13:55:47','2013-07-30 18:55:47','','Day # 11 NASA All stars Jul','','inherit','closed','closed','','72-revision','','','2013-07-30 13:55:47','2013-07-30 18:55:47','',72,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/72-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(38,16,'2013-07-19 13:01:43','2013-07-19 18:01:43','','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-7','','','2013-07-19 13:01:43','2013-07-19 18:01:43','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(32,16,'2013-07-19 12:37:44','2013-07-19 17:37:44','Spectroscope Builder.\nTeachers constructed paper spectroscope. Observed spectrum, absorption of colors, red shift, blue shift. Observed spectra from white light, Krypton ( Kr) and Neon ( Ne) lights\nHttp://solar-center.stanford.edu\n\nHow to use iPad by Russ \n\n Video conference with Harvey Mosley. X-Rays','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-3','','','2013-07-19 12:37:44','2013-07-19 17:37:44','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(33,16,'2013-07-19 12:40:25','2013-07-19 17:40:25','Spectroscope Builder.\nTeachers constructed paper spectroscope. Observed spectrum, absorption of colors, red shift, blue shift. Observed spectra from white light, Krypton ( Kr) and Neon ( Ne) lights\nHttp://solar-center.stanford.edu\n\nHow to use iPad by Russ \n\n Video conference with Harvey Mosley. X-Rays\nX-ray tools','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-4','','','2013-07-19 12:40:25','2013-07-19 17:40:25','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(34,16,'2013-07-19 12:55:34','2013-07-19 17:55:34','Spectroscope Builder.\nTeachers constructed paper spectroscope. Observed spectrum, absorption of colors, red shift, blue shift. Observed spectra from white light, Krypton ( Kr) and Neon ( Ne) lights\nHttp://solar-center.stanford.edu\n\nHow to use iPad by Russ \n\n Video conference with Harvey Mosley. X-Rays\nX-ray tools','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-5','','','2013-07-19 12:55:34','2013-07-19 17:55:34','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(35,16,'2013-07-19 12:56:24','2013-07-19 17:56:24','Spectroscope Builder.\nTeachers constructed paper spectroscope. Observed spectrum, absorption of colors, red shift, blue shift. Observed spectra from white light, Krypton ( Kr) and Neon ( Ne) lights\nHttp://solar-center.stanford.edu\n\nHow to use iPad by Russ \n\n Video conference with Harvey Mosley. X-Rays\nX-ray tools','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-6','','','2013-07-19 12:56:24','2013-07-19 17:56:24','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(39,16,'2013-07-19 15:02:16','2013-07-19 20:02:16','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-8','','','2013-07-19 15:02:16','2013-07-19 20:02:16','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(40,16,'2013-07-19 15:16:07','2013-07-19 20:16:07','','20130719-151606.jpg','','inherit','closed','closed','','20130719-151606-jpg','','','2013-07-19 15:16:07','2013-07-19 20:16:07','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-151606.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(41,16,'2013-07-19 15:03:25','2013-07-19 20:03:25','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-9','','','2013-07-19 15:03:25','2013-07-19 20:03:25','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(42,16,'2013-07-19 15:16:11','2013-07-19 20:16:11','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-151606.jpg\"><img src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-151606.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-151606.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" /></a>','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-10','','','2013-07-19 15:16:11','2013-07-19 20:16:11','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(43,16,'2013-07-19 15:20:02','2013-07-19 20:20:02','','20130719-152000.jpg','','inherit','closed','closed','','20130719-152000-jpg','','','2013-07-19 15:20:02','2013-07-19 20:20:02','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(44,16,'2013-07-19 15:16:58','2013-07-19 20:16:58','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-151606.jpg\"><img src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-151606.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-151606.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" /></a>\n\nRuss demonstrating spectrum','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-11','','','2013-07-19 15:16:58','2013-07-19 20:16:58','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(45,16,'2013-07-19 15:20:04','2013-07-19 20:20:04','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.<br /><br />\n\n\n\nRuss demonstrating spectrum<br /><br /><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\"><img src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-152000.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" /></a>','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-12','','','2013-07-19 15:20:04','2013-07-19 20:20:04','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(46,16,'2013-07-21 09:52:49','2013-07-21 14:52:49','Dear colleagues,\n\nI have selected \'Optical History\' for my lesson plan.\n\nmercy','Lesson plan  Optical History','','inherit','closed','closed','','1-autosave','','','2013-07-21 09:52:49','2013-07-21 14:52:49','',1,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/1-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(47,16,'2013-07-10 20:20:54','2013-07-10 20:20:54','Welcome to <a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/\">CUIP School Blogs</a>. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!','Hello world!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1-revision','','','2013-07-10 20:20:54','2013-07-10 20:20:54','',1,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/1-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(49,16,'2013-07-22 10:21:47','2013-07-22 15:21:47','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight. Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray\nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.\nStudents built their own spectroscope.\n\nRuss demonstrating spectrum\n\n<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130719-152000.jpg\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\" /></a>','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-autosave','','','2013-07-22 10:21:47','2013-07-22 15:21:47','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(50,16,'2013-07-19 15:24:29','2013-07-19 20:24:29','Spectroscope builder\n\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\nLight.  Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\n\nPM\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\nTechniques and tools in X-ray \nKepler airborne observatory\nHigh flying balloons\nMicro calorimeters  for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.\nStudents built their own spectroscope.\n\n\n<br /><br />\n\n\n\nRuss demonstrating spectrum<br /><br /><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\"><img src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\" alt=\"20130719-152000.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" /></a>','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-13','','','2013-07-19 15:24:29','2013-07-19 20:24:29','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(72,16,'2013-07-30 13:56:45','2013-07-30 18:56:45','Students preparing for final presentation.','Day # 11 NASA All stars 29July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-11-nasa-all-stars-29july-2013','','','2013-07-30 13:56:45','2013-07-30 18:56:45','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=72',0,'post','',0),(53,16,'2013-07-22 10:22:22','2013-07-22 15:22:22','Spectroscope builder\r\n\r\nTeachers built a paper spectroscope. Compared spectra from white light, Krypton (Kr) Neon (Ne)\r\nLight. Red shift and blue shift phenomena also were studied.\r\n\r\nPM\r\nSkype video conference with Harvey Moseley on X- ray tools\r\nTechniques and tools in X-ray\r\nKepler airborne observatory\r\nHigh flying balloons\r\nMicro calorimeters for X - ray spectroscopy for measuring energy.\r\nStudents built their own spectroscope.\r\n\r\nRuss demonstrating spectrum\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130719-152000.jpg\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/20130719-152000.jpg\" /></a>','Day # 5 NASA All Stars 19 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','29-revision-14','','','2013-07-22 10:22:22','2013-07-22 15:22:22','',29,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/29-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(54,16,'2013-07-22 10:26:49','2013-07-22 15:26:49','Sdss data Don\nExplored sky server DR 9\nFamous places\n\nAnalyzed stars &amp; galaxies','Day # 6 NASA All Stars 22July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-5-nasa-all-stars-22july-2013','','','2013-07-23 15:03:02','2013-07-23 20:03:02','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=54',0,'post','',0),(56,16,'2013-07-23 10:42:12','2013-07-23 15:42:12','Sdss data Don\nExplored sky server DR 9\nFamous places\n\nAnalyzed stars &amp; galaxies','Day # 6NASA All Stars 22July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','54-revision-2','','','2013-07-23 10:42:12','2013-07-23 15:42:12','',54,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/54-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(57,16,'2013-07-23 15:01:54','2013-07-23 20:01:54','Sdss data Don\nExplored sky server DR 9\nFamous places\n\nAnalyzed stars &amp; galaxies','Day # 6 NASA All Stars 22July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','54-revision-3','','','2013-07-23 15:01:54','2013-07-23 20:01:54','',54,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/54-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(58,16,'2013-07-23 15:13:21','2013-07-23 20:13:21','Don continued his conversation on sdss data\nVikram spoke the properties of x rays , how they are formed. Low  and high energy  x rays.chandra telescope and the history of other telescopes.','Day # 7 NASA All stars 23 July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-7-nasa-all-stars-23-july-2013','','','2013-07-23 15:13:21','2013-07-23 20:13:21','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=58',0,'post','',0),(59,16,'2013-07-24 13:05:45','2013-07-24 18:05:45','Don York \nDiscussion on data analysis from SDSS\nTeachers to prepare lesson plan following the rubric send by Julia.\nClassification continued, u and  r values were added to the data\n\nIf  U - r   is less than 2.2 the object is a blue star or galaxy.\nIf u-r. Is mor than 2.2 the object is a red galaxy\nStudents need to prepare for a presentation next week\nTeachers lesson plan due by Aug 14 with modifications.','Day # 8 NASA All Stars 24 July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-8-nasa-all-stars-24-july-2013','','','2013-07-24 15:36:16','2013-07-24 20:36:16','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=59',0,'post','',0),(60,16,'2013-07-24 13:05:45','2013-07-24 18:05:45','Don York \nDiscussion on data analysis from SDSS\nTeachers to prepare lesson plan following the rubric send by Julia.','Day # 8 NASA All Stars 24 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','59-revision','','','2013-07-24 13:05:45','2013-07-24 18:05:45','',59,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/59-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(61,16,'2013-07-25 15:29:41','2013-07-25 20:29:41','SDSS Data graphing Petra rad-r / z red shift  in the computer lab\niPad app for notes installed\nTeachers and student do presentations on 30th july.\n\nMotivating students for higher education in summer and beyond at u of Chicago.\nCollege admissions\nUchicago college bridge program.\nHigh rigor / good academic results ACT score and SAT score\nFree books and tuition free','Day # 9 NASA All stars  27 July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-9-nasa-all-stars-27-july-2013','','','2013-07-25 15:37:08','2013-07-25 20:37:08','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=61',0,'post','',0),(62,16,'2013-07-25 15:29:41','2013-07-25 20:29:41','SDSS Data graphing Petra rad-r / z red shift  in the computer lab\niPad app for notes installed\nTeachers and student do presentations on 30th july.\n\nMotivating students for higher education in summer and beyond at u of Chicago.\nCollege admissions\nUchicago college bridge program.\nHigh rigor / good academic results ACT score and SAT score\nFree books and tuition free','Day # 9 NASA All stars  27 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','61-revision','','','2013-07-25 15:29:41','2013-07-25 20:29:41','',61,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/61-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(64,16,'2013-07-26 15:15:41','2013-07-26 20:15:41','<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" alt=\"bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a-300x139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<b><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/muon-g-2-campus.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70\" alt=\"muon-g-2-campus\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/muon-g-2-campus-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a></b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 team is in the midst of transporting a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22 at Brook haven National Laboratory, and will conclude the week of July 22 at Fermi lab\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/collaboration.shtml\">Scientists</a> from three Department of Energy national laboratories, Fermilab, Brook haven and Argonne, along with scientists from seven foreign countries and more than a dozen U.S. universities are collaborating on a new physics experiment that will probe fundamental properties of matter and space. Muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) is an Intensity Frontier experiment that will allow researchers to peer into the subatomic world to search for undiscovered particles that may be hiding in the vacuum.\r\n\r\nSoon to be built at Fermi lab\'s new Muon Campus, the experiment will use the Fermilab accelerator complex to produce an intense beam of muons traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists will use the beam to precisely determine the value of a property known as the g-2 of the muon.\r\n\r\nThe muon, like its lighter sibling the electron, acts like a spinning magnet. The parameter known as \"g\" indicates how strong the magnet is and the rate of its gyration. The value of g is slightly larger than 2, hence the name of the experiment. This difference from 2 is caused by the presence of virtual particles that appear from the vacuum and then quickly disappear into it again.\r\n\r\nIn measuring g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction, physicists will discover whether the experiment agrees with theory. Any deviation would point to as yet undiscovered subatomic particles that exist in nature.\r\n\r\nAn experiment that concluded in 2001 at Brook haven National Laboratory found a tantalizing greater-than-3-sigma (standard deviation) discrepancy between the theoretical calculation and the measurement of the muon g-2. The level necessary for claiming a discovery is 5 sigma. Fermilab will pick up where Brook haven left off, making an even more precise measurement.\r\n\r\nWith a four-fold increase in the measurement\'s precision, Muon g-2 will be more sensitive to virtual or hidden particles and forces than any previous experiment of its kind. About 100 scientists from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and more than 15 institutions in the United States are collaborating with Fermilab on this experiment.\r\n\r\nThe centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is a large, 50-foot-diameter superconducting muon storage ring. This one-of-a-kind ring, made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, was built for the previous g-2 experiment at Brook haven. The ring will be moved from Brook haven to Fermilab during the second half of 2013. Making use of Fermi lab\'s intense particle beams, scientists will be able to significantly increase the science output of this unique instrument. The experiment will start taking data in 2016.\r\n\r\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\r\n\r\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\r\n\r\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\r\n\r\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\r\n\r\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\r\n\r\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\r\n\r\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\r\n\r\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\r\n\r\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\r\n\r\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\r\n\r\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\r\n\r\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\r\n\r\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\r\n\r\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\r\n\r\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\r\n\r\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\r\n\r\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\r\n\r\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\r\n\r\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\r\n\r\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\r\n\r\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\r\n\r\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\r\n\r\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\r\n\r\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\r\n\r\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Day # 10 NASA All Stars 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-10-nasa-all-stars-2013','','','2013-07-26 15:28:07','2013-07-26 20:28:07','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=64',0,'post','',0),(65,16,'2013-07-26 15:08:26','2013-07-26 20:08:26','','bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a','','inherit','closed','closed','','bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a','','','2013-07-26 15:08:26','2013-07-26 20:08:26','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(66,16,'2013-07-26 15:14:46','2013-07-26 20:14:46','<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" alt=\"bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a-300x139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" /></a> The Muon g-2 team is in the midst of transporting a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22 at Brook haven National Laboratory, and will conclude the week of July 22 at Fermi lab\n\n<a href=\"http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/collaboration.shtml\">Scientists</a> from three Department of Energy national laboratories, Fermilab, Brook haven and Argonne, along with scientists from seven foreign countries and more than a dozen U.S. universities are collaborating on a new physics experiment that will probe fundamental properties of matter and space. Muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) is an Intensity Frontier experiment that will allow researchers to peer into the subatomic world to search for undiscovered particles that may be hiding in the vacuum.\n\nSoon to be built at Fermi lab\'s new Muon Campus, the experiment will use the Fermilab accelerator complex to produce an intense beam of muons traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists will use the beam to precisely determine the value of a property known as the g-2 of the muon.\n\nThe muon, like its lighter sibling the electron, acts like a spinning magnet. The parameter known as \"g\" indicates how strong the magnet is and the rate of its gyration. The value of g is slightly larger than 2, hence the name of the experiment. This difference from 2 is caused by the presence of virtual particles that appear from the vacuum and then quickly disappear into it again.\n\nIn measuring g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction, physicists will discover whether the experiment agrees with theory. Any deviation would point to as yet undiscovered subatomic particles that exist in nature.\n\nAn experiment that concluded in 2001 at Brook haven National Laboratory found a tantalizing greater-than-3-sigma (standard deviation) discrepancy between the theoretical calculation and the measurement of the muon g-2. The level necessary for claiming a discovery is 5 sigma. Fermilab will pick up where Brook haven left off, making an even more precise measurement.\n\nWith a four-fold increase in the measurement\'s precision, Muon g-2 will be more sensitive to virtual or hidden particles and forces than any previous experiment of its kind. About 100 scientists from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and more than 15 institutions in the United States are collaborating with Fermilab on this experiment.\n\nThe centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is a large, 50-foot-diameter superconducting muon storage ring. This one-of-a-kind ring, made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, was built for the previous g-2 experiment at Brookhaven. The ring will be moved from Brookhaven to Fermilab during the second half of 2013. Making use of Fermilab\'s intense particle beams, scientists will be able to significantly increase the science output of this unique instrument. The experiment will start taking data in 2016.\n\n.\n\n&nbsp;','Day # 10 NASA All Stars 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','64-revision','','','2013-07-26 15:14:46','2013-07-26 20:14:46','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/64-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(67,16,'2013-07-26 15:30:10','2013-07-26 20:30:10','<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" alt=\"bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a-300x139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" /></a>\n\n<b><a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/muon-g-2-campus.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70\" alt=\"muon-g-2-campus\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/muon-g-2-campus-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a></b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe Muon g-2 team is in the midst of transporting a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22 at Brook haven National Laboratory, and will conclude the week of July 22 at Fermi lab\n\n<a href=\"http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/collaboration.shtml\">Scientists</a> from three Department of Energy national laboratories, Fermilab, Brook haven and Argonne, along with scientists from seven foreign countries and more than a dozen U.S. universities are collaborating on a new physics experiment that will probe fundamental properties of matter and space. Muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) is an Intensity Frontier experiment that will allow researchers to peer into the subatomic world to search for undiscovered particles that may be hiding in the vacuum.\n\nSoon to be built at Fermi lab\'s new Muon Campus, the experiment will use the Fermilab accelerator complex to produce an intense beam of muons traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists will use the beam to precisely determine the value of a property known as the g-2 of the muon.\n\nThe muon, like its lighter sibling the electron, acts like a spinning magnet. The parameter known as \"g\" indicates how strong the magnet is and the rate of its gyration. The value of g is slightly larger than 2, hence the name of the experiment. This difference from 2 is caused by the presence of virtual particles that appear from the vacuum and then quickly disappear into it again.\n\nIn measuring g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction, physicists will discover whether the experiment agrees with theory. Any deviation would point to as yet undiscovered subatomic particles that exist in nature.\n\nAn experiment that concluded in 2001 at Brook haven National Laboratory found a tantalizing greater-than-3-sigma (standard deviation) discrepancy between the theoretical calculation and the measurement of the muon g-2. The level necessary for claiming a discovery is 5 sigma. Fermilab will pick up where Brook haven left off, making an even more precise measurement.\n\nWith a four-fold increase in the measurement\'s precision, Muon g-2 will be more sensitive to virtual or hidden particles and forces than any previous experiment of its kind. About 100 scientists from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and more than 15 institutions in the United States are collaborating with Fermilab on this experiment.\n\nThe centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is a large, 50-foot-diameter superconducting muon storage ring. This one-of-a-kind ring, made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, was built for the previous g-2 experiment at Brook haven. The ring will be moved from Brook haven to Fermilab during the second half of 2013. Making use of Fermi lab\'s intense particle beams, scientists will be able to significantly increase the science output of this unique instrument. The experiment will start taking data in 2016.\n\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\n\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\n\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\n\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\n\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\n\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\n\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\n\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\n\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\n\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\n\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\n\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\n\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\n\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\n\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\n\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\n\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\n\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\n\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\n\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\n\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\n\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\n\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\n\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\n\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\n\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\n\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n.\n\n&nbsp;','Day # 10 NASA All Stars 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','64-autosave','','','2013-07-26 15:30:10','2013-07-26 20:30:10','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/64-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(68,16,'2013-07-26 15:15:41','2013-07-26 20:15:41','<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" alt=\"bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a-300x139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" /></a> The Muon g-2 team is in the midst of transporting a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22 at Brook haven National Laboratory, and will conclude the week of July 22 at Fermi lab\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/collaboration.shtml\">Scientists</a> from three Department of Energy national laboratories, Fermilab, Brook haven and Argonne, along with scientists from seven foreign countries and more than a dozen U.S. universities are collaborating on a new physics experiment that will probe fundamental properties of matter and space. Muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) is an Intensity Frontier experiment that will allow researchers to peer into the subatomic world to search for undiscovered particles that may be hiding in the vacuum.\r\n\r\nSoon to be built at Fermi lab\'s new Muon Campus, the experiment will use the Fermilab accelerator complex to produce an intense beam of muons traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists will use the beam to precisely determine the value of a property known as the g-2 of the muon.\r\n\r\nThe muon, like its lighter sibling the electron, acts like a spinning magnet. The parameter known as \"g\" indicates how strong the magnet is and the rate of its gyration. The value of g is slightly larger than 2, hence the name of the experiment. This difference from 2 is caused by the presence of virtual particles that appear from the vacuum and then quickly disappear into it again.\r\n\r\nIn measuring g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction, physicists will discover whether the experiment agrees with theory. Any deviation would point to as yet undiscovered subatomic particles that exist in nature.\r\n\r\nAn experiment that concluded in 2001 at Brook haven National Laboratory found a tantalizing greater-than-3-sigma (standard deviation) discrepancy between the theoretical calculation and the measurement of the muon g-2. The level necessary for claiming a discovery is 5 sigma. Fermilab will pick up where Brook haven left off, making an even more precise measurement.\r\n\r\nWith a four-fold increase in the measurement\'s precision, Muon g-2 will be more sensitive to virtual or hidden particles and forces than any previous experiment of its kind. About 100 scientists from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and more than 15 institutions in the United States are collaborating with Fermilab on this experiment.\r\n\r\nThe centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is a large, 50-foot-diameter superconducting muon storage ring. This one-of-a-kind ring, made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, was built for the previous g-2 experiment at Brook haven. The ring will be moved from Brook haven to Fermilab during the second half of 2013. Making use of Fermi lab\'s intense particle beams, scientists will be able to significantly increase the science output of this unique instrument. The experiment will start taking data in 2016.\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Day # 10 NASA All Stars 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','64-revision-2','','','2013-07-26 15:15:41','2013-07-26 20:15:41','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/64-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(74,16,'2013-07-30 13:56:47','2013-07-30 18:56:47','Students preparing for final presentation.','Day # 11 NASA All stars 29July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','72-autosave','','','2013-07-30 13:56:47','2013-07-30 18:56:47','',72,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/72-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(75,16,'2013-07-30 15:11:20','2013-07-30 20:11:20','Teacher  Lesson Plan presentation\r\n\r\nMercy Optical tools -The Herschels of Hanover.\r\n\r\nLesson plan on Optical Tools, followed by Power point presentation.\r\n\r\nAstronomers: Caroline Herschel,  Sir Wiliam Herschel,  Lyman Spitzer. Contributions to Astronomy.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Types of Telescopes: Refractive telescopes (Lenses) Reflective telescopes (Mirrors)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hubble telescope</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SDSS Data, Spectrograph, Analysis.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Student presentation : Participating schools</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">1. Walter Payton 2 presentations :  Antwan :Apparent Magnitude Vs. Velocity</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2. Roosevelt High School: Alexander Paz &amp; Daniela Paz :</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Are all galaxies the same size?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">3. Amundsen High School: 2 presentations. 1) Are Galaxies the same size?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2)does the radius of the galaxy affect the galaxy?</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">4. Malek Sarhan:  Is the universe Homogenous?5.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Day # 12 NASA All Stars 30 July 2013','','publish','closed','closed','','day-12-nasa-all-stars-30-july-2013','','','2013-07-30 15:11:20','2013-07-30 20:11:20','',0,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/?p=75',0,'post','',0),(76,16,'2013-07-30 15:10:12','2013-07-30 20:10:12','Teacher  Lesson Plan presentation\n\nMercy Optical tools -The Herschels of Hanover.\n\nLesson plan on Optical Tools, followed by Power point presentation.\n\nAstronomers: Caroline Herschel,  Sir Wiliam Herschel,  Lyman Spitzer. Contributions to Astronomy.\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Types of Telescopes: Refractive telescopes (Lenses) Reflective telescopes (Mirrors)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hubble telescope</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SDSS Data, Spectrograph, Analysis.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Student presentation : Participating schools</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">1. Walter Payton 2 presentations :  Antwan :Apparent Magnitude Vs. Velocity</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2. Roosevelt High School: Alexander Paz &amp; Daniela Paz :</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Are all galaxies the same size?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">3. Amundsen High School: 2 presentations. 1) Are Galaxies the same size?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2)does the radius of the galaxy affect the galaxy?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">4. Malek Sarhan:  Is the universe Homogenous?5.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Day # 12 NASA All Stars 30 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','75-revision','','','2013-07-30 15:10:12','2013-07-30 20:10:12','',75,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/75-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(77,16,'2013-07-30 15:12:25','2013-07-30 20:12:25','Teacher  Lesson Plan presentation\n\nMercy Optical tools -The Herschels of Hanover.\n\nLesson plan on Optical Tools, followed by Power point presentation.\n\nAstronomers: Caroline Herschel,  Sir Wiliam Herschel,  Lyman Spitzer. Contributions to Astronomy.\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Types of Telescopes: Refractive telescopes (Lenses) Reflective telescopes (Mirrors)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hubble telescope</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SDSS Data, Spectrograph, Analysis.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Student presentation : Participating schools</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">1. Walter Payton 2 presentations :  Antwan :Apparent Magnitude Vs. Velocity</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2. Roosevelt High School: Alexander Paz &amp; Daniela Paz :</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Are all galaxies the same size?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">3. Amundsen High School: 2 presentations. 1) Are Galaxies the same size?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2)does the radius of the galaxy affect the galaxy?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">4. Malek Sarhan:  Is the universe Homogenous?5.</p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Day # 12 NASA All Stars 30 July 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','75-autosave','','','2013-07-30 15:12:25','2013-07-30 20:12:25','',75,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/75-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(69,16,'2013-07-26 15:21:24','2013-07-26 20:21:24','<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" alt=\"bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a-300x139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<b><img alt=\"\" src=\"image/png;base64,[encoded data, 198440 characters]\" /></b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 team is in the midst of transporting a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22 at Brook haven National Laboratory, and will conclude the week of July 22 at Fermi lab\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/collaboration.shtml\">Scientists</a> from three Department of Energy national laboratories, Fermilab, Brook haven and Argonne, along with scientists from seven foreign countries and more than a dozen U.S. universities are collaborating on a new physics experiment that will probe fundamental properties of matter and space. Muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) is an Intensity Frontier experiment that will allow researchers to peer into the subatomic world to search for undiscovered particles that may be hiding in the vacuum.\r\n\r\nSoon to be built at Fermi lab\'s new Muon Campus, the experiment will use the Fermilab accelerator complex to produce an intense beam of muons traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists will use the beam to precisely determine the value of a property known as the g-2 of the muon.\r\n\r\nThe muon, like its lighter sibling the electron, acts like a spinning magnet. The parameter known as \"g\" indicates how strong the magnet is and the rate of its gyration. The value of g is slightly larger than 2, hence the name of the experiment. This difference from 2 is caused by the presence of virtual particles that appear from the vacuum and then quickly disappear into it again.\r\n\r\nIn measuring g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction, physicists will discover whether the experiment agrees with theory. Any deviation would point to as yet undiscovered subatomic particles that exist in nature.\r\n\r\nAn experiment that concluded in 2001 at Brook haven National Laboratory found a tantalizing greater-than-3-sigma (standard deviation) discrepancy between the theoretical calculation and the measurement of the muon g-2. The level necessary for claiming a discovery is 5 sigma. Fermilab will pick up where Brook haven left off, making an even more precise measurement.\r\n\r\nWith a four-fold increase in the measurement\'s precision, Muon g-2 will be more sensitive to virtual or hidden particles and forces than any previous experiment of its kind. About 100 scientists from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and more than 15 institutions in the United States are collaborating with Fermilab on this experiment.\r\n\r\nThe centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is a large, 50-foot-diameter superconducting muon storage ring. This one-of-a-kind ring, made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, was built for the previous g-2 experiment at Brook haven. The ring will be moved from Brook haven to Fermilab during the second half of 2013. Making use of Fermi lab\'s intense particle beams, scientists will be able to significantly increase the science output of this unique instrument. The experiment will start taking data in 2016.\r\n\r\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\r\n\r\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\r\n\r\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\r\n\r\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\r\n\r\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\r\n\r\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\r\n\r\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\r\n\r\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\r\n\r\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\r\n\r\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\r\n\r\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\r\n\r\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\r\n\r\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\r\n\r\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\r\n\r\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\r\n\r\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\r\n\r\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\r\n\r\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\r\n\r\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\r\n\r\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\r\n\r\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\r\n\r\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\r\n\r\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\r\n\r\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\r\n\r\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Day # 10 NASA All Stars 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','64-revision-3','','','2013-07-26 15:21:24','2013-07-26 20:21:24','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/64-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(70,16,'2013-07-26 15:27:57','2013-07-26 20:27:57','','muon-g-2-campus','','inherit','closed','closed','','muon-g-2-campus','','','2013-07-26 15:27:57','2013-07-26 20:27:57','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/muon-g-2-campus.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(71,16,'2013-07-26 15:23:45','2013-07-26 20:23:45','<a href=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65\" alt=\"bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a\" src=\"http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/07/bb29ceaf-ce17-4d7a-93b0-365208eb494a-300x139.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<b><img alt=\"\" src=\"image/png;base64,[encoded data, 198440 characters]\" /></b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 team is in the midst of transporting a 50-foot-wide electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece. The move began on June 22 at Brook haven National Laboratory, and will conclude the week of July 22 at Fermi lab\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/collaboration.shtml\">Scientists</a> from three Department of Energy national laboratories, Fermilab, Brook haven and Argonne, along with scientists from seven foreign countries and more than a dozen U.S. universities are collaborating on a new physics experiment that will probe fundamental properties of matter and space. Muon g-2 (pronounced gee minus two) is an Intensity Frontier experiment that will allow researchers to peer into the subatomic world to search for undiscovered particles that may be hiding in the vacuum.\r\n\r\nSoon to be built at Fermi lab\'s new Muon Campus, the experiment will use the Fermilab accelerator complex to produce an intense beam of muons traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists will use the beam to precisely determine the value of a property known as the g-2 of the muon.\r\n\r\nThe muon, like its lighter sibling the electron, acts like a spinning magnet. The parameter known as \"g\" indicates how strong the magnet is and the rate of its gyration. The value of g is slightly larger than 2, hence the name of the experiment. This difference from 2 is caused by the presence of virtual particles that appear from the vacuum and then quickly disappear into it again.\r\n\r\nIn measuring g-2 with high precision and comparing its value to the theoretical prediction, physicists will discover whether the experiment agrees with theory. Any deviation would point to as yet undiscovered subatomic particles that exist in nature.\r\n\r\nAn experiment that concluded in 2001 at Brook haven National Laboratory found a tantalizing greater-than-3-sigma (standard deviation) discrepancy between the theoretical calculation and the measurement of the muon g-2. The level necessary for claiming a discovery is 5 sigma. Fermilab will pick up where Brook haven left off, making an even more precise measurement.\r\n\r\nWith a four-fold increase in the measurement\'s precision, Muon g-2 will be more sensitive to virtual or hidden particles and forces than any previous experiment of its kind. About 100 scientists from China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and more than 15 institutions in the United States are collaborating with Fermilab on this experiment.\r\n\r\nThe centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is a large, 50-foot-diameter superconducting muon storage ring. This one-of-a-kind ring, made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, was built for the previous g-2 experiment at Brook haven. The ring will be moved from Brook haven to Fermilab during the second half of 2013. Making use of Fermi lab\'s intense particle beams, scientists will be able to significantly increase the science output of this unique instrument. The experiment will start taking data in 2016.\r\n\r\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\r\n\r\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\r\n\r\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\r\n\r\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\r\n\r\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\r\n\r\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\r\n\r\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\r\n\r\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\r\n\r\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\r\n\r\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\r\n\r\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\r\n\r\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\r\n\r\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\r\n\r\n<b>How Does Muon g-2 Work?</b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDrawing of Fermilab\'s planned Muon Campus, future home of the Muon g-2 experiment\r\n\r\n<b>How do we measure g-2?</b>\r\n\r\nA beam of muons with aligned spins is directed into a storage ring that has a very precisely known magnetic field. As the beam goes around this storage ring, the muons\' spins wobble, or precess. Scientists measure the rate that they precess very precisely. The magnitude of that precession is directly related to the difference of g from 2, or g-2.\r\n\r\nThe world\'s best muon g-2 measurement was performed by Brookhaven National Laboratory\'s experiment E821, completed in 2001. To perform this measurement with sufficient precision, E821 stored a total of 100 billion muons in a large electromagnet and observed their spin precessions. To nearly everyone\'s astonishment, E821\'s measurement differed from the Standard Model prediction by greater than 3 standard deviations. Physicists are excited by the possibility that the discrepancy is due to previously unknown particles appearing from and disappearing back into the vacuum.\r\n\r\nScientists will make use of Fermilab\'s new Muon Campus to study muons with greater precision than ever before.\r\n\r\n<b>Creating a muon beam</b>\r\n\r\nThe Muon g-2 experiment begins with a beam of protons. About 12 times every second, Fermilab\'s accelerators smash a bunch of protons, roughly 10<sup>12</sup> particles, into a fixed target, creating different types of particles.\r\n\r\nScientists on the Muon g-2 experiment are interested in the emerging pions, which quickly decay into muons, whose spins point in the same direction. Magnets steer the pions and the resulting muons into a 14-meter-diameter ring called the Muon Delivery Ring, a ring formerly used as part of Fermilab\'s Antiproton Source. As the particles travel hundreds of yards around the ring, essentially all of the pions decay into muons. This beam of muons is then transferred into a second ring, the experiment\'s precision storage ring, which was also used in the Brookhaven experiment. This 50-foot-diameter ring will be housed in a new building adjacent to the Muon Delivery Ring on the Muon Campus.\r\n\r\n<b>Measuring the muon\'s decay</b>\r\n\r\nAs the muons orbit around the storage ring at nearly the speed of light, their internal bar magnets will rotate around the magnetic field.\r\n\r\nAs the muons travel around the ring, they are continually decaying into neutrinos and positrons. The neutrinos fly away undetected, but the positrons, which travel in the same direction that the bar magnet was pointing when the muon decayed, can be measured. The number of high-energy positrons detected as a function of time, along with their energy, provides all the information researchers need to understand how much the muon\'s internal bar magnet is precessing.\r\n\r\n<b>Comparing experimental to predicted results</b>\r\n\r\nSensitive detectors installed along the ring will measure the orbits and the precessions of these positrons with greater accuracy than ever before — to 140 parts per billion. The results, which will only be known upon the completion of a several-year run, will be compared to theorists\' g-2 prediction. If the experimental result differs from the theoretical prediction, it could be a sign of undiscovered physics beyond the Standard Model. Combining the Muon g-2 results with those from other experiments could help explain, or even point to, new physics the LHC might find. Particle physics theorists at Fermilab and elsewhere are driving a worldwide program in high-powered computational physics to calculate part of the Standard Model contribution to g-2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Day # 10 NASA All Stars 2013','','inherit','closed','closed','','64-revision-4','','','2013-07-26 15:23:45','2013-07-26 20:23:45','',64,'http://schoolblogs.cuip.net/mercy/2013/07/64-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0);
