Work begins for new Fermilab Welcome and Access Center
A new building at Fermilab’s main entrance will provide a better welcome to the laboratory and a smoother site access experience.
Fermilab is America’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory. Our vision is to solve the mysteries of matter, energy, space and time for the benefit of all.
U.S. Department of Energy program helps Fermilab bring quantum control electronics to market
Participants in the Energy I-Corps program aim to commercialize the Fermilab-developed Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit. QICK has been helping researchers improve their quantum computing performance while minimizing cost.
New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest
Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that is notoriously difficult to study and has captivated the physics community for decades.
Brynn Kristen MacCoy receives 2024 URA Honorary Doctoral Thesis Award
Brynn Kristen MacCoy’s work on improving beam dynamics has helped Muon g-2 researchers better understand and account for the behavior of the muon beam.
William Pellico receives 2024 URA Honorary Engineering Award
William Pellico received this year’s URA Honorary Engineering Award highlighting his innovative application of power-over-fiber technology for use in DUNE’s cryogenic environments.
Kevin Pedro receives 2024 URA Honorary Early Career Award
To aid in the search for elusive dark matter, Kevin Pedro looks for ways to harness the capabilities of artificial intelligence for analyzing particle collision data. For this work, Pedro was awarded the 2024 Universities Research Association Honorary Early Career Award.
Fermilab in the news
Interesting Engineering, Oct. 1, 2024
The 2×2 detector has captured its first neutrino interactions at Fermilab with help from scientists at SLAC. The prototype neutrino detector will help fine-tune a full-size version of the DUNE Near Detector Liquid Argon detector and will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day.
UChicago News, October 1, 2024
DOE has awarded the Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC a new management and operating contract for Fermilab, the nation’s leading particle physics and accelerator laboratory, for a five-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2025.
MSN, Sept. 30, 2024
From National Geographic Spain, right click to translate. Why are particle accelerators so important as machines that help us find the answers to the questions of how the universe works and why we are here.