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SQMS Center announces the addition of Rutgers University-New Brunswick to its growing collaboration

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Rutgers joins 19 other contributing partners, representing national labs, academia and industry, to conduct SQMS research activities.

Teaching a particle detector new tricks

Scientists from Fermilab and other institutions hoping to find new, long-lived particles at the Large Hadron Collider recently realized, with CMS, they may already have the detector to do it.

URA names John Mester next executive director and chief executive officer

The physicist succeeds Marta Cehelsky, who has been at the helm of the Universities Research Association since 2011.

Fermilab’s Benjamin Hansen wins award for leadership in cryogenics operations, support

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The Cryogenic Society of America has awarded Benjamin Hansen its Award for Excellence in Cryogenic Operations and Support. Head of Fermilab’s Cryogenics Operations Department, he received the award for his leadership maintaining and operating six helium cryogenic test facilities.

Can light melt atoms into goo?

The ATLAS experiment at CERN sees possible evidence of quark-gluon plasma production during collisions between photons and heavy nuclei inside the Large Hadron Collider.

The search for the sterile neutrino

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Back when it was theorized, scientists weren’t sure they would ever detect the neutrino. Now scientists, including some at Fermilab, are searching for a version of the particle that could be even more elusive.

National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy visits Fermilab to highlight climate change, clean energy in the Midwest

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The country’s first National Climate Advisor in charge of climate change and environmental policies, Gina McCarthy, visited Fermilab with Reps. Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood. Their tour was to highlight the importance of climate change and clean energy in the Midwest, with a focus on job creation, public health and economic opportunity.

A collective strategy for physics in Africa

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For the first time, African physicists and other researchers are creating a grassroots strategy for the future of physics research and education.

Zhicai Zhang wins 2021 URA Thesis Award

The annual Universities Research Association Thesis Award recognizes outstanding work for a thesis conducted at or in collaboration with Fermilab. Zhang’s winning Ph.D. dissertation included insights into both physics searches and equipment upgrades at the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS detector. Fermilab serves as the U.S. hub for CMS.

LHCb discovers longest-lived exotic matter yet

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The newly discovered tetraquark provides a unique window into the interactions of the particles that make up atoms.