NEWS RELEASE

9/19/02

CONTACT: Tom Mead, SLAC (650) 926-5133, tmead@slac.stanford.edu
Mike Perricone, Fermilab (630) 840-5678, mikep@fnal.gov

Relevant Web URLs:
http://www.interactions.org

SLAC and Fermilab introduce a high-energy physics news wire

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, Calif., and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill., this week jointly announced the launching of an e-mail news wire, HEP Interactions, for communicating news from high-energy physics and related fields.

The free service will function as a source of timely information about high-energy physics, including press releases and other news items from the world’s high-energy physics laboratories. Although SLAC and Fermilab are initiating the news wire, it also will include news from other physics labs, such as CERN in Switzerland, KEK in Japan and DESY in Germany. A related website will archive all stories.

For more information, or to receive this new electronic subscriber news service, visit the website at: http://www.interactions.org.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a national laboratory in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, is operated by Stanford University. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is operated under contract by Universities Research Association, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

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