Fermilab 50th Anniversary

Newly waxed hallway in front of the Main Control Room shows light reflections.

Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Julie Vander Meulen enjoys the Technical Division annual picnic.

Flowers in the grass.

Ryan Campbell helps volunteers identify and sort seeds for planting on the prairie.

Sunflower and the pollinators

On right, Mike Roman of the Particle Physics Division Detector Development and Operations Department and Dylan Frizzell from Argonne National Laboratory work on measuring pixel sensor modules for ATLAS in the Lab C cleanroom at SiDet.

50th Anniversary Planning

At Playgroup, Anna Elementi decorates an owl with beans, lentils and rice during craft time. Playgroup meets every Wednesday in the Fermilab Village. Everyone is welcome.

Compass flowers are blooming en masse around the site right now, and the pollinators are out in force! This picture was taken on the Main Injector road between MI10 and MI20 using my phone.

View from the top of the Bubble Chamber

Praying mantis looks like it is all hopped up on Mountain Dew!

Batavia residents enjoy a quick game of hide and seek.

Foggy Fermilab sunrise, west entrance

John Najdzion (using the power washer) and Adrian Marquez, both of the Particle Physics Detector Development and Operations Department, work on making the Bubble Chamber, in the SiDet courtyard, shiny and bright by giving it a power-washing bath.

This comic was found on the whiteboard in the cafeteria. Fermilab folks can be very creative!

This is a view of the NuMI Target Hall taken from atop the workcell looking upstream. The shielding blocks over the tops of target and horns' respective "T-blocks" are open in preparation for survey and alignment and electrical work. All of this work is part of the 2017 summer accelerator shutdown period for maintenance and development. Several technicians, engineers and physicists have completed jobs in this enclosure, which is over 150 feet underground. I took this photo with my phone toward the end of the day.

Ryan Frantzen, left, and Martin Valenzuela remove some branches from the trees outside Ramsey Auditorium in preparation for the Open House next month.

What do you see between the trees? The high-rise of course. You can see the high-rise from many areas on site.

From Jim's garden at Fermilab

Adam Lister of Lancaster University in the UK sits shift for MINERvA in ROC West on a quiet Saturday afternoon.

Lily ponds near DZero

Olivia Lahs-Bour stands next to the Fermilab logo created by Angela Gonzales, her mother.

The beans at the photographer's garden plot in the Fermilab Garden Club are ready to pick.

Is it an outhouse or is it the burned vacuum circuit breaker cabinet at MI-60?

Daily sunrise pic

These blue cornflowers adorn the roadsides and fence rows every summer and early fall.

Hard rock concrete cutters work at removing concrete and steel pillars that once held up the Bubble Chamber in the Lab B pit at SiDet.

View from Wilson Hall

Can't get enough of this sculpture.

SBN-ND Building

Walking toward IARC...

daily pic

Question: Category: Jobs for $50..."while at work I hang out and keep all my tools within arms reach." Answer: What is a Wilson Hall window washer?

Take 5 for safety

Mr. Froggy sits in the early sunlight waiting for breakfast to fly by.

From left: Renan Silva Soares, undergraduate from the Universidade Federal Do ABC, Brazil, and Dante Totani, Ph.D. student from University of L'Aquila, are testing a SIPM, or silicon photomultiplier, a part of light detector for the DUNE experiment.

I was walking to the car when I noticed this bee on a flower outside of MI65. Took the picture with my phone.

Wilson Hall is dwarfed by giant plant-life.

Great day to do windows!

Take a little walk down the lovely Margaret Pearson Memorial Trail, also known as the Fermilab Interpretive Trail. You'll love it!

Osprey searches for next catch on Ring Road.

Wilson Hall eclipse over window washers.

Some of the Technical Division's brightest stars gather to watch the solar eclipse!

A group of Fermilab employees and users watches the eclipse from the courtyard outside the cafeteria. The sun, partially covered by the moon, is visible also on Wilson Hall windows.

The ICARUS trip!

21-inch smallmouth bass

Eclipse through the clouds behind Wilson Hall.

Kevin Fahey, Jack Fowler, Jim Niehoff, David Montanari, Chris Mossey, and Jolie Macier (left to right), look upward to the eclipse during a break at an LBNF design review at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota.

Intermittent image due to cloud cover, but when it was mostly clear we could watch the clouds pass across out line of sight to the sun. The video is awesome I took with my phone!

A cloudy sky allowed to see the slice of the sun on Wilson Hall's partially reflecting windows.

Monday's solar eclipse, reflected through the two lenses of a pair of protective sunglasses.

People watch the solar eclipse in front of Wilson Hall.

Waiting for the total eclipse on a mostly cloudy day.

Frog in pond on Ring Road.

Little do the citizens of Earth know that in less than 48 hours, the moon will be blocking, for a moment, the source of their heat and light.

Sunrise Eola Road.

Artwork by Angela Gonzales

David Butler shows off the walk-in oven at Lab 3 in the Village.

Phil Crabtree and John Anderson III show off the enclosure keys they needed that day for vacuum work they were doing.

In response to my picture with Phil and John with all their enclosure keys, John took this photo and said: "We decided to get some blue and purple keys."

A bumblebee visits flowers behind Aspen East.

A fun crew Friday Night for the party, "In Front of the Barn"

The Particle Physics Division have their picnic today at Kuhn Barn. On the right, Patricia McBride, head of the division, welcomes folks to the picnic. Dee Hahn, PPD/DDOD; and Callie Surber, PPD Office, hand out raffle tickets.

SUSY Swan, new Fermilab Theory Department mascot, watches over the Director's Coffee Break.

Aleksey Akimov carefully installs a 3.9-gigahertz superconducting radio-frequency cavity into the Horizontal Test Stand at MDB.

Evening at the pasture

Beautiful view from east Booster parking lot.

Tyler Drendel works on Muon Campus instrumentation devices, including PWC proportional wire chambers and ion chambers at NWA.

Getting ready for the eclipse on Monday. Using a transit to project the image of the sun onto a pad of paper. Basic concept works ... now it's time for some refinements to the apparatus before the big day!

Wilson Hall and the new lily pads

Wildflowers

Life in the village.

A beautiful start to the day as the sun comes up over the fields by Wilson Street.

Geese on the tennis courts after the rain

The LHC Physics Center guest and visitors from Texas Tech University, along with Zotlan Gecse and Maral Alyari from Fermilab, work in the Lab C cleanroom at SiDet. They are working on the CMS testing Co2 cooling performance of the cassette for the CMS high-granularity calorimeter. From left: Samila Muthumuni, TTU; Tielige Mengke, TTU; Zoltan Gecse, Fermilab CMS; Kamal Lamichhane, TTU; Maral Alyari, Fermilab CMS.

This willow tree at Site 58 has the prettiest twist to it.

The Fermilab gym recently acquired some new equipment, including this squat rack. It's the best!

Morning walk in foggy sunrise

Armando Barboza polishes vacuum flanges on PIP-II 325-MHz superconducting half-wave resonators at Lab 2.

Matt Crawford of Fermilab, Barry Glicklich. In the background, the gamer on the far right is Bill Tannenbau. On the far left is Howard Sanders.

Dana Smith of the carpenter shop fixes up a small conference room at Site 38 OPS.

Alignment of the LCLS-II cavity string to vessel

Rise and shine!

Bob Barger performs instrument calibration at PAB.

Luna moth on the ground just outside of AZero. Credit to Matt Alverez for pointing it out and not accidentally stepping on it!

Monday morning

Cloud reflections

Bison eat in the evening while the sun is peeking through the clouds.

Baby swallows wait for the parents to return at AP0.

Beetle-like creatures swarm on a daisy-like weed in the wide median on Pine Street. Wilson Hall is in the background.

Fermilab Garden

I've always enjoyed that Fermilab continues in its Illinois heritage by allowing the use of part of its open space by local farmers to grow and harvest corn and beans.

Guess where.

Welcome to the world Baby #11!

Main Ring Pond near C-0

Fermilab Photo Club celebrates its 50th anniversary today at the Water Street Studios exhibit opening. The studios feature photos that have been taken at Fermilab by many of the Photography Club members.

The opening reception for the 50th Anniversary Fermilab Photo Club Show at Water Street Studios in Batavia.

Early morning before the moon had set.

Wasp of Fermilab Fire Department's glass firetruck.

Patience abounds while waiting for wildlife.

Sump in pbar

The yellows, purples, pinks and whites of August.

Ryan Kos, vet tech intern, works on the Linac Marx generator.

ICARUS has arrived!

The face only a mother could love.

Momma bird waits for me to stop taking pictures of her babies so she can feed them. SiDet residents.

A beautiful sunrise

Ring ride at lunch time. I love the contrast in colors between the sky, clouds and greenery.

Dew on ornamental grass sparkles in the morning sunlight.

The path was busy on this beautiful day!

Looking northwest

Dr. Don Lincoln, Fermilab physicist, concludes the Undergraduate Summer Lecture Series on "A Theory of Everything: Are We There Yet?"

Naked Ladies aka surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera planted in front of The Outback at DZero

Why dragon fly when you can dragon sit on a bench?

One of hundreds of bees on the Russian sage along the Outback at DZero.

Spotted in Wilson Hall cafeteria, east side

The morning sun on the evening moon flower at The Outback

The full moon is visible between the branches of the willow tree next to Batavia Road.

So many cool looking things at SiDet. I asked Javier Tiffenberg of the Particle Physics Division Astrophysics Department what this is. He explained to me that this is an engineering replica of the Dark Energy Camera focal plane. It was used during the construction of the DECam instrument that is installed in Chile in the telescope that is being used for the Dark Energy Survey. #MobileMonday

Flowers outside of Wilson Hall on the east side.

A parent osprey sits in a tree while a juvenile flies around asking for food.

Heron on Outer Ring Road

Zucchini plants in the Fermilab Garden

Today participants of the past week DPF meetings and Fermilab employees tour different labs at SiDet, ending with some sorbet and a group picture in front of the Bubble Chamber.

Last day of Phriendly Physics Teacher Workshop.

Phriendly Physics Workshop toured the IB3 facility. This is part of the magnet assembly process.

One of today's DPF speakers in 1 West was Enhao Song from the University of Virginia. He spoke on "A Neural Network Trigger for Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Far Detector."

Collecting seeds for prairie restoration with Fermilab Natural Areas volunteers.

Walking the Main Ring at lunchtime, we saw these lilies in a Main Ring cooling pond.

Doug Berry of the University of Illinois at Chicago gives a talk on behalf of the CMS collaboration.

Butterfly hanging around Playgroup at Kuhn Barn

... flock together.

Tony Tong, from Harvard University, enjoys todays physics talks at the DPF 2017 meetings.