NIU students lend their engineering skills to PIP-II
Senior engineering students designed a portable cleanroom and a modular cryomodule mockup for Fermilab’s new accelerator complex upgrade project.
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Connecting with physics
Professors are finding new ways to show students that physics is more than just a set of laws and equations.
A minute with Abhishek Pathak, PIP-II postdoctoral researcher
A postdoc on the PIP-II project, Pathak works on beam dynamics and also enjoys riding his bike around Fermilab and admiring the blue sky of the Illinois prairieland.
How JWST will test models of cold dark matter
Two projects in JWST’s first observation cycle will probe the nature of dark matter.
Wrocław University of Science and Technology joins global collaboration in signing PIP-II planning document with Fermilab
Polish university will contribute cryogenic distribution system for the PIP-II project, an upgrade of Fermilab’s accelerator complex.
Curious physics results could shed light on dark matter
Even experiments that aren’t looking for dark matter directly, such as Muon g-2, could give us hints about the mysterious substance that permeates our universe.
Seeing through walls and breaking down barriers
Physicists and archaeologists are teaming up to provide research opportunities for Black and Hispanic undergraduates to image an archaeological site in Mexico using muon tomography. Fermilab personnel will help with the project, and Fermilab will also produce the scintillators for use in the muon detector.
The quantum poet
Catanzano began bringing science into her poetry after exploring poetry as a “philosophical investigation,” a step that she says drew her into thinking about how poems negotiate time. That brought Catanzano to physics and Albert Einstein’s theories of special relativity and general relativity.
Fine-tuning versus naturalness
When observed parameters seem like they must be finely tuned to fit a theory, some physicists accept it as coincidence. Others want to keep digging.