Flashback Friday: In February 2018, scientists working on a project to search for axions rejoice in their new space in Lab B. Among them is the late, great Alvin Tollestrup, second from the right.
Aaron Chou
Aaron Chou is a Fermilab scientist.
The Fermilab Holometer has reached its design luminosity, building up more than 1 kilowatt of infrared laser power stored in a 40-meter-long Michelson interferometer. This light intensity corresponds to more than 10 billion trillion photons per second hitting the interferometer optics. It also allows scientists to measure the optics’ positions to a resolution 1,000 times smaller than the size of a proton.