Majorana Demonstrator finds ‘tantalizing’ new purpose
Scientists are using a detector originally designed to study neutrinos to pin down an elusive nuclear physics measurement.
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Preparing for a more powerful particle accelerator
An international collaboration is upgrading the CMS detector at CERN to handle the increased number of collisions that the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will produce.
Accelerator operators: pillars of particle physics
It takes years of on-the-job training to learn the ins and outs of particle accelerator operation.
Excavation of huge caverns for DUNE particle detector is underway
Excavation of the large caverns for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility is in full swing. Over a third of the whopping 800,000 tons that need to be extracted from a mile underground have been removed. When finished, the underground facility will cover an area about the size of eight soccer fields and provide space for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Experimental demonstration of optical stochastic cooling
From Nature, Aug. 10, 2022: Scientists have successfully used a new technique at Fermilab’s Integrable Optics Test Accelerator
to cool a particle beam and make it denser. The new method may enable future experiments to create more particle collisions.
Particle physicists want to build the world’s first muon collider
From Nature, Aug. 8, 2022: The accelerator would smash together this heavier version of the electron and, researchers hope, discover new particles.
First demonstration of a new particle beam technology at Fermilab
Scientists successfully used a new technique to cool a particle beam and make it denser. The new method may enable future experiments to create more particle collisions. Denser particle beams provide researchers a better chance of exploring rare physics phenomena that help us understand our universe.
Four (more) things you might not know about antimatter
It’s around you, it’s a part of you, and scientists are still trying to figure it out.
Roger Snyder becomes permanent DOE site office manager at Fermilab
As the representative of Department of Energy Office of Science at Fermilab, Snyder will continue to support the lab’s mission and ensure work is accomplished safely and within DOE requirements. The Fermilab acting site office manager since February, Snyder has been permanently reassigned to lead the Fermi Site Office while also serving as acting site office manager for nearby Argonne Laboratory.