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February 15 Briefs Excerpts:



12 GeV Upgrade - Hall B Update

After completion of the beam run to demonstrate the Key Performance 
Parameter (KPP) for the Hall B scope of the 12 GeV Upgrade project, the hall 
has been busy preparing for the arrival of the Solenoid magnet. This 
activity requires a temporary de-installation of some of the detectors that 
were installed for the KPP demonstration. There will be an increase in 
overhead work during this preparation period.



12 GeV Upgrade - Hall C Update

Hall C is getting ready for the Hall C KPP demonstration beam run in March. 
The Q3 quadrupole magnet is cold and power testing is well underway. Cool 
down of the Dipole magnet is nearing completion, and low power testing will 
start in a few days. The Hall C beam line has been installed with the 
assistance of the Survey and Alignment group.



Applications Being Accepted for 2017 HUGS Program at JLab

Applications are being accepted through March 10 for the 2017 Hampton 
Universities Graduate Studies (HUGS) program to be held at Jefferson Lab. 
The HUGS Program is a summer school designed for experimental and 
theoretical nuclear and particle physics graduate students who have finished 
their coursework and have at least one year of research experience in these 
fields. Students who are well into a research project are also encouraged to 
apply.



Jefferson Lab Celebrates National Engineers Week, Feb. 19-25

The lab employs more than 130 engineers! To acknowledge the contributions 
made by its many talented engineers, the Jefferson Lab Engineering Division 
will be celebrating National Engineers Week. All engineers are invited to 
take a break any time after 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, to enjoy a piece of 
cake. The cake will be in the 2nd floor break area of the TED, Building 55. 
Please sign the recognition board and let us know where you went to school 
and when. Perhaps we will find some interesting connections we didn’t know 
we had.



IT Maintenance Scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 21, 5-10 p.m.

The IT Division will conduct a maintenance period on Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 
5-10 p.m.  During this time the external outgoing mail server, smail, will 
be replaced with a newer system. The smail server to be available no later 
than 7 p.m.  Also, Windows and Linux patches will be deployed to all CUE 
managed workstations and servers. Overnight, Tuesday night, Linux and 
Windows servers will reboot causing brief service outages. All services will 
be back up and available no later than 7 a.m. on Wednesday.



Jefferson Lab Recognizes 136 Staff Members at 2017 Service Awards Events

One hundred thirty-six staff members were recognized for their years at 
Jefferson Lab during a series of four 2017 Service Awards events held in 
early February.  Lab staff members who had achieved 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25- 
and 30-year employment anniversaries were recognized at the events. The 
cumulative time worked by this year's recipients totaled 2,085 years of 
service to the lab. Congratulations to all those receiving Service Awards!



Golf League Forming for 2017 Season; Interested Golfers to Meet on Feb. 23

The Jefferson Lab Golf League is open to all current staff, retirees, users, 
and their spouses. All levels of play and weekly availability are welcomed. 
A 2017 organizational meeting will be held on Thursday, Feb. 23, in CEBAF 
Center, Room F113, from 12-1 p.m.



Orders, Money Due by Friday, Feb. 17, for New JLab Cycling Jersey

The price for the new cycling jersey is $44 each. Prepayment is necessary to 
cover the vendor’s deposit and to start the order. Orders and prepayment 
must be made to Steven Neilson by close of business Friday, Feb. 17.



Physics Seminar: From Light Hadrons to Charm: Early Results from the GlueX 
Experiment

The primary goal of the GlueX experiment is to study gluonic degrees of 
freedom in QCD by mapping the light meson spectrum, with a focus on 
searching for and studying hybrid mesons. Sean Dobbs, Northwestern 
University, will discuss the current status of the experiment, present 
several results from the commissioning run, including the first observation 
of the charmed meson J/psi at Jefferson Lab, and discuss the future outlook 
of the experiment. The seminar will be held in the CEBAF Center auditorium 
at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16.



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