The new Irradiation Test Area has met a milestone: On Jan. 11, it began transporting a high-intensity proton beam to the very first set of user experiments. The ITA will play a critical role in High-Luminosity LHC projects and others to come. The beginning of operations ushers in a new era of instrumentation development in high-energy physics.
Throwback Thursday: The waterway between Lederman Science Center and Wilson Hall is covered in snow.
Throwback Thursday: A frozen puddle with long ice grains forms near the CUB cooling pond.
This light outside the Ramsey Auditorium warms and dries the gravel around it on a recent damp morning.
When the cosmic ray muons rain, they pour … in the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber.
Throwback Thursday: An oak in the warm autumn sunset near the Main Control Room.
Ops Crew Chief Max Monningh gives the Friday 9 a.m. operations report in vintage metallic velvet.
The light of a sunset is seen through the CUB exhaust plume.
An accidental camera obscura in the MI-12 South exhaust fan hut captures cloud iridescence on a winter afternoon.