Eight cavities might sound like a nightmare to the average person. But when it comes to speeding up particles, it’s an aspiration.
Ali Sundermier
Ali Sundermier is a science writing intern in the Fermilab Office of Communication.
Since the time he was in grade school, Rob Reilly has been working with machines, including his first car, a 1950 Jaguar.
Scientists from Fermilab and more than 45 institutions around the world have teamed up to design a program to catch this hypothetical neutrino in the act. The program, called the Short-Baseline Neutrino program, makes use of a trio of detectors positioned along one of Fermilab’s neutrino beams.
Argonne National Laboratory was attracted to the expertise of this Fermilab magnet team. The team recently developed a pre-prototype magnet for Argonne’s APS Upgrade Project. Photo: Doug Howard, TD A magnet two meters long sits in the Experiment Assembly Area of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. The magnet, built by Fermilab’s Technical Division, is fire engine red and has on its back a copper coil that doesn’t quite reach from one end to the other. An opening…
Alexey Burov, a beam physicist in the Accelerator Division, enjoys exploring philosophical questions. How long have you been working at Fermilab? I came here in 1997. At that time the project of electron cooling started to be discussed here at Fermilab, and I was brought on as a beam physics expert. What is a typical day for you like? Some time ago I developed a theory of beam instabilities at strong space charge, and right now I am working to…
The team of students from Glenbrook North High School attends a morning colloquium with teacher Nate Unterman before working at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. Photo: Ashley Black, OC It isn’t your typical science fair fare: Students from Glenbrook North High School in Illinois have carried out an experiment in a way that very few high schoolers will ever get to do — using a high-energy proton beam at America’s premier particle physics laboratory. The group recently spent a week…
“La Gloria Cubana” by Jeremiah Lee is on display as part of the exhibit “On That Note” in the Fermilab Art Gallery. The exhibit will be up until Sept. 10. On the second floor of Wilson Hall, embedded in a series of nine 12-by-12-inch prints, there is a lithograph of a girl floating against a brick wall. The image is full of holes: The wall is spotted with them, and the girl, who is entangled in vines, has a hole…
Bonnie Weiberg sits down in front of a small monitor in the Proton Assembly Building at Fermilab. Her job is to test the signal strength of the liquid-argon purification monitors for the proposed DUNE experiment. But Weiberg isn’t your average particle physicist. In fact she isn’t a physicist at all: She’s a physics and chemistry teacher at Niles North High School in Skokie, Illinois. Weiberg is here this summer as part of the Fermilab TRAC program, which is funded by…