Caitlyn Buongiorno is a freelance writer in the Chicago area.
Fermilab’s Asian and Pacific American community is one of a number of lab resource groups that strive to promote diversity and inclusion. Fermilab scientist Bo Jayatilaka and engineer Yun He talk about this community and what it means to foster an inclusive and diverse environment.
Congratulations to Dave Pushka for winning last week’s quiz! A lab employee or user to submit the correct answer to today’s question will be featured in next week’s quiz and receive a small token of recognition.
Scientists think that, under some circumstances, dark matter could generate powerful enough gravitational waves for equipment like LIGO to detect. Now that observatories have begun to record gravitational waves on a regular basis, scientists are discussing how dark matter—only known so far to interact with other matter only through gravity—might create these gravitational waves.
Congratulations to Mary Tolian for winning last week’s quiz! A lab employee or user to submit the correct answer to today’s question will be featured in next week’s quiz and receive a small token of recognition.
Fermilab scientists are preparing for future, high-power particle beams with a technological advance inspired by spinning sugar. It’s a new type of target — the material that beams collide with to produce other particles, such as neutrinos. The target is designed to be able to withstand the heat from high-intensity beams, expanding the potential of experiments that use them. Researching this new patent-pending technology already has led to a TechConnect Innovation Award and might have applications in the medical field.
Congratulations to Darren Crawford for winning last week’s quiz! The first lab employee or user to submit the correct answer to today’s question will be featured in next week’s quiz and will receive a small token of recognition.
On Feb. 26, a team on Fermilab’s MINERvA neutrino experiment gathered around a computer screen to officially conclude its data acquisition. Even with the data collection over, the work marches on. MINERvA now turns its attention to analyzing the data it has collected over the past nine years of its run.
Congratulations to Julius Borchert and Jessica Esquivel for winning last week’s quiz! The first lab employee or user to submit the correct answer to today’s question will be featured in next week’s quiz and will receive a small token of recognition.
Congratulations to Dan Lambert for winning last week’s quiz! Once more, for this week’s trivia question, the first lab employee or user to respond will be featured in next week’s quiz and receive a small token of recognition.
Congratulations to Catherine Buck for winning last week’s quiz! Once more, for this week’s trivia question, the first lab employee or user to respond will be featured in next week’s quiz and receive a small token of recognition.