Mommy, Daddy, where does mass come from?
The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.
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The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.
From WDCB 90.9 FM, May 10, 2016: Artist Stephen Cartwright loves the pattern of data and uses it to create art. His visualizations are the basis of the artworks on display at the Fermilab Art Gallery.
After months of winter hibernation, the Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons and taking data. The LHC will run around the clock for the next six months and produce six times more collisions than in 2015.
From Cold Facts, April 20, 2016: Fermilab’s work on LCLS-II is highlighted in a round-up of cryogenic facilities at national laboratories.
From Nature, April 29, 2016: A request to christen the newborn animal kicks off a flurry of physics puns.
Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.
From The 21st, May 5, 2016: Check out this interview between The 21st and Rod Walton, Fermilab environmental consultant, as he helps us get better acquainted with the hoofed beasts that may soon be named the national mammal.
Physicists up and down the Western Hemisphere are fans of neutrinos, and experiments to study the subtle particle are flourishing at Fermilab and throughout Latin America.
Each will receive $2.5 million, distributed over five years, to advance their work at the laboratory.
On April 27, Fermilab broke ground on the building that will house the future Short-Baseline Near Detector. The particle detector is one of three that, together, Fermilab scientists and collaborators will use to search for the sterile neutrino.