How to put together an international physics experiment
To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.
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Fermilab completes the first-of-its-kind prototype of a superconducting accelerator module
The 10-meter-long cryomodule, part of the PIP-II particle accelerator project at Fermilab, is now undergoing testing to validate all its components and finalize its design. In a few years, Fermilab and international partners will produce four similar cryomodules that will propel particles in the new linear accelerator.
Nobel-winning experiment enables Fermilab-led quantum network
Anton Zeilinger, who received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, pioneered research on quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping. These technologies are instrumental in the success of the Illinois-Express Quantum Network, which recently published a paper outlining its design concepts and implementation. The technologies are also the basis for the quantum devices that generate the network.
Construction contract awarded for particle accelerator complex at Fermilab
Construction may now begin on the PIP-II Linac Complex. The tunnel and building will house the new linear particle accelerator that will power the physics programs and neutrino research at Fermilab for the coming decades.
New accelerator project completes successful transatlantic transportation test
To prepare for the shipment of large, delicate particle accelerator components from the UK to Fermilab, the PIP-II team flew a “dummy load” across the Atlantic Ocean, recording every little bump the dummy experienced. After careful validation of all transportation data, the team will ship a 10-meter-long prototype cryomodule early next year.
First-time ATLAS measurement provides new look at Higgs
For the first time, physicists have a statistically significant measurement of the joint polarization of W and Z bosons.
The next stage of cosmic microwave background research
With CMB-S4, scientists hope to connect a sandy desert with a polar desert—and revolutionize our understanding of the early universe.
A minute with Sajini Wijethunga, PIP-II postdoctoral researcher
A postdoc on the PIP-II project, Wijethunga is working on investigating the presence of an electron cloud in the Fermilab Booster.
PIP-II transportation test frame is ready for action
Successful assembly was the result of a collaboration among three institutions in three countries.
10 years later, Higgs boson discoverers publish refined measurements
In new papers by the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations, physicists detail high-precision results from their latest Higgs boson studies.