A tale of three cities
An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the United States.
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At LIGO, three’s a trend
The third detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes provides a new test of the theory of general relativity.
This month in Fermilab history: June
It was in June that National Accelerator Laboratory employees first showed up to work and that Leon Lederman became the lab’s second director.
A brief etymology of particle physics
How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
First results from search for a dark light
The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
Friends of Lords Park Zoo announces baby bison’s name
From The Courier-News, May 23, 2017: A bison that Fermilab gave up for adoption by the Elgin Zoo now has a name.
ICARUS and the three labs
Technicians from CERN and INFN recently converged at Fermilab to help prepare the ICARUS detector’s future home.
Early Tevatron design days
How many times must one iterate on a magnet-spool design? Until Dr. Wilson is happy.
The founding of Fermilab
From CERN Courier, May 19, 2017: Former Fermilab archivist and historian Adrienne Kolb recounts how, 50 years ago, U.S. physicists established a new laboratory and with it a new approach to carrying out frontier research in high-energy physics.