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NIU scientists explore particle Students, faculty working on experiment with 17-ton magnet at Fermilab By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com Mary Shenk thought helping to solve an unexplained phenomenon about life’s basic building blocks seemed like the best way to spend her summer. Shenk, a 33-year-old Northern Illinois University graduate student, is one of more than a dozen NIU students and faculty members working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on a high-profile experiment centered around a 17-ton magnet and a mysterious subatomic particle. “The results we get from this will help to discover new particle physics and discov-
er new things about the universe,” Shenk said. The Muon g-2 experiment will study the elusive muon and its interaction with magnetic fields. Scientists believe the experiment could lead to the discovery of new particles or hidden subatomic forces. The 50-foot-wide circular electromagnet that made a 3,200-mile journey from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York last summer will be the centerpiece of the Muon g-2 experiment. Workers completed the final leg of the magnet’s journey Wednesday, moving it into a building where the experiment will happen in 2016. Muons are a heavier ver-
sion of electrons, wobbling like a spinning top. Scientists know why muons wobble, but the way they wobble remains a mystery. A study done by Brookhaven scientists in 2001 showed the muons’ wobble didn’t match what was predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, which covers how fundamental particle make up the matter in the universe. The Fermilab experiment will have four times the precision of the Brookhaven experiment. “It has the possibility to rewrite the textbook,” said Mike Eads, an assistant professor of physics, who has led NIU’s Muon g-2 contingent since it
started two years ago. “It can tell us the standard model is not enough, that it’s incomplete.” A better understanding of the muon could lead to a better understanding of the other basic building blocks of nature, Eads added. “If you understand the universe and everything around this, then that’s a good thing,” he said. One of NIU’s main roles in the experiment will be quality control testing for a complex straw-tube tester, a type of particle detector being built in Liverpool, England. The device detects particles known
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One year after completing its 3,200-mile journey from Long Island to Fermilab, the gigantic Muon g-2 electromagnet moved into its new building Wednesday on the Fermilab campus near Batavia.
FUTURE OF SYCAMORE BROWNS’ PROPERTY
Auction results not yet public
CIA spied on Senate, internal review finds By KEN DILANIAN The Associated Press
Photos by Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com
The former Browns’ County Market, shown here at 403 E. State St. in Sycamore on Thursday, has been vacant for a year. CBRE Auction Services listed the 35,120 square foot retail space on 2.82 acres July 22 with an opening bid of $500,000.
Some residents hope for another grocery store By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com
and JESSI HAISH jhaish@shawmedia.com
Sycamore resident Stephen Poorten (right), 14, talks to his cousin Jude Poorten, 14, visiting from Phoenix, while enjoying a Tropical Sno in the former Browns’ County Market parking lot Thursday.
SYCAMORE – A Sycamore resident for the past 12 years, Grace Katzel used to buy all of her meats from Browns’ County Market grocery store. Katzel regularly purchased her chicken, pork roast and steak from Browns’ before the Sycamore store closed in 2013, when the owner transferred the property to National Bank & Trust and proceeded with Chapter 7 bankruptcy. “I never had a bad piece of meat. It gave me confidence,” Katzel said. “I would run over to Browns’, get something for dinner, and I know it’d be good.”
Now, the store sits mostly empty, with dozens of shopping carts inside, between Family Dollar and Resource Bank, with the Tropical Sno stand still operating in the parking lot. The Genoa branch of the store closed in 2012, leaving the town without a grocery store until a Piggly Wiggly filled that location. The Sycamore property at 403 E. State St. was up for online auction for two hours on July 22, with an opening bid of $500,000 for the 35,120-square-foot retail space. David McCoy, senior vice president and chief financial office at NB&T, said details of the auction results would not be made public for 45 days, as that is the time period the buyer would have to close.
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“I would run over to Browns’, get something for dinner, and I know it’d be good.” Grace Katzel,
WASHINGTON – The CIA’s insistence that it did not spy on its Senate overseers collapsed Thursday with the release of a stark report by the agency’s internal watchdog documenting improper computer surveillance and obstructionist behavior by CIA officers. Five agency employees – two lawyers and three computer specialists – improperly accessed Senate intelligence committee computers earlier this year in a dispute over interrogation documents, according to a summary of a CIA inspector general report describing the results of an internal investigation. Then, despite CIA Director John Brennan ordering a halt to that operation, the CIA’s office of security began an unauthorized investigation that led it to review the emails of Senate staffers and search them for key words. After Senate leaders learned about the intrusion in January and objected, the CIA made a criminal referral to the Justice Department, alleging improper behavior by Senate staffers when they took the internal CIA review documents. That referral, CIA watchdog David Buckley found, was based on inaccurate information and was not justified. Brennan also asked his agency’s inspector general to examine whether the CIA committed wrongdoing. When internal investigators interviewed the three CIA computer specialists who helped access the Senate machines, they exhibited “a lack of candor,” the IG report said, suggesting an attempt to cover up their actions. Those internal conclusions prompted CIA Director Brennan to abandon months of defiance and defense of the agency and apologize to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders. “The director said that wherever the investigation led, he would accept the findings and own up to them,” said his spokesman, Dean Boyd. Brennan has convened an internal accountability board chaired by former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., to examine whether any CIA officers should be disciplined. Furious Democrats demanded further investigation and a public accounting from Brennan. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., called for the director’s resignation, citing “a tremendous failure of leadership.” At issue is a search by agency officers for information gathered in the course of a Senate investigation into the CIA’s interrogation techniques. The search involved a penetration of the
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