From Big Think, June 22, 2023: Fermilab’s Don Lincoln discusses how the Universe is timeless and dimensionless from a photon’s viewpoint.
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From the White House, June 22, 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Joe Biden met last Thursday to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two countries on cutting-edge scientific infrastructure. As part of the agreement, India will supply components worth $140 million to the U.S. Department of Energy’s plans to upgrade the Fermilab accelerator complex to create the most intense high-energy neutrino beams which would help unravel understanding of the evolution of the universe. This contribution is described in number 10 of the White House statement.
From CERN, June 13, 2023: Teams at CERN’s Neutrino Platform are currently upgrading and assembling multiple detectors to help large experiments like the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to uncover the mysteries of neutrinos. But before the full-size detectors are built, CERN has created the large cryostat modules of the ProtoDUNE experiment. The Neutrino Platform is also an assembly station for the Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment in Japan.
From Quanta Magazine, June 8, 2023: A new novel network called sparse convolutional neural network is helping physicists accelerate the daunting challenge of data analysis. It provides the ability to focus on the relevant parts of data and screen out the rest. This is a historic change for the physics community and learn how it can be used in DUNE when the projects starts data later this decade.
You are invited to join a live event at the CERN neutrino platform, Fermilab’s neutrino control room and SURF’s Ross Hoistroom for, “Particle pursuit, a journey of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment” on June 15 at 11:00 a.m. CDT. All three labs will be broadcasting live simultaneously for a behind scenes tour of the preparations for DUNE and discussing all things neutrinos.
The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to mine. Taken during the experiment’s “survey validation” phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way.
From the Black Hills Pioneer, June 10, 2023: The city of Lead announced Fermi Research Alliance contributed a majority of the costs to the improvements of Manuel Brothers Park in Lead, South Dakota. FRA’s contribution will help pay for the concrete pathway that has been built around the perimeter of the park that the is used as a gathering place for many events and activities for the residents throughout the year.
From Phys.org. June 9, 2023: A team of theoretical physicists led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities has discovered a new way to search for axions, hypothetical particles to help explain “Strong CP Problem”, a puzzling phenomenon in which neutrons do not interact with electric fields despite being made up of quarks. The team worked with experimental researchers at Fermilab and this new strategy opens up previously unexplored opportunities to detect axions in particle collider experiments.
From Stanford University, June 7, 2023: Stanford University has announced experimental particle physicist, Stan Wojcicki, who played an essential role in modern neutrino oscillation experiments using high energy beams, has passed away. Wojcicki was spokesperson for the MINOS neutrino experiment at Fermilab and was well-known as he played a major role at Fermilab.
From CERN, June 6, 2023: Join CERN, Fermilab and Sanford Underground Research Facility on June 15 at 11 a.m. CDT for its first gameshow-style livestream to learn about all things neutrinos. Click to learn more about this exciting virtual event.