Congratulations to Christine Ader 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.
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Caitlyn Buongiorno is a freelance writer in the Chicago area.
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved the scope, cost and schedule for the U.S. LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project and has given the first approval for the purchase of materials. This project brings together scientists, engineers and technicians from national laboratories — such as Fermilab, Brookhaven, Berkeley, SLAC and Jefferson labs — to develop two cutting-edge technologies to advance the future of both the Large Hadron Collider and broader collider research.
One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists have recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier. Their piece, a bright blue and white sculpture of tracks of microscopic bubbles in a bubble chamber, was inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the sand mandala. To find the perfect bubble chamber image to recreate, they scrolled through hundreds of these photographs in the archive at Fermilab.
Congratulations to Matthew Spaw and Adam Wixson 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.
Introducing a new interactive feature for Fermilab News at Work. The first employee or user to submit the correct answer, will be featured in next week’s quiz and receive a small token of recognition.