The new CDF result for the W boson mass, combined with the world’s best value for the top quark mass, restricts the Higgs mass to the green area, requiring it to be less than 145 GeV/c2. Direct searches have narrowed the allowed Higgs mass range to 115-127 GeV/c2. Editor’s note: A special scienitific seminar on this result will take place today at 10 a.m. in One West. Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person…
The new CDF result for the W boson mass, combined with the world’s best value for the top quark mass, restricts the Higgs mass to the green area, requiring it to be less than 145 GeV/c2. Direct searches have narrowed the allowed Higgs mass range to 115-127 GeV/c2. Editor’s note: A special scienitific seminar on this result will take place today at 10 a.m. in One West. Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person…
On Dec. 16, officials broke ground for the Illinois Accelerator Research Center at Fermilab. For the full caption, click here. Photo: Reidar Hahn DZero collaborator and state representative Mike Fortner dreamed about this type of building on the Fermilab campus since he first joined the state legislature. The Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) will be a place for students and industry to mix with scientists and engineers to develop the next high-tech particle accelerator technologies and translate them into applications…
As a postdoc, Giovanni Tassielli has the whole particle physics landscape to survey for the most stimulating future job prospects. The researcher from INFN in Italy feels a pull toward the most challenging experiments at the Intensity Frontier: those that seek out the rarest of all particle interactions, the smallest of effects and provide a glimpse of physics beyond what experiments at particle colliders can reach. “I love the precision,” said Tassielli while attending a Department of Energy-organized workshop in…
Forget the colloquium you know. Fermilab is throwing out the traditional lecture hall and inviting scientists and engineers to mingle under a giant disco ball in a decades-old barn to talk about science that is so challenging it must be done outside the laboratory. Science in unusual, faraway and even dangerous places: Xtreme Research. The fourth Argonne-UChicago-Fermilab joint speaker series will take place in the less-than-typical venue of Kuhn Barn in the Fermilab Village from 6 to 8:45 p.m. on…
From left: Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate (1988 Physics) and former Director of Fermilab; Robert Mau, the former head of Fermilab Accelerator Operations; and Helen Edwards, the former head of the Accelerator Division, aborting colliding beams in the Tevatron for the last time. Photo: Marty Murphy, AD Thousands of Fermilab staff members and scientific collaborators flooded Fermilab and watched remotely online from across the globe Friday to see the Tevatron power down one final time. Following the shutdown, everyone joined in…
CDF (red) and DZero (yellow) recorded the East Coast earthquake. Image courtesy of Todd Johnson, AD CDF (red) and DZero (yellow) recorded the Colorado earthquake. Image courtesy of Todd Johnson, AD On Tuesday, Aug. 23, the Tevatron accelerator knew something none of the people operating it knew. It felt what employees didn’t, and it reported the news faster than the media could upload it to the Internet. A 5.9-magnitude earthquake had struck the East Coast, and the super-sensitive Tevatron felt…
AD’s Bruce Worthel and Duane Newhart film a scene in Wilson Hall’s Atrium. Wilson Hall’s second-floor comitium room starts to take shape as the cantina in a Star Wars fan film. Photo: Cindy Arnold A long time ago in a national laboratory far, far away. some physicists looked around their workplace and thought of dark forces. Not dark matter; not dark energy; but the ultimate force from the dark side: Darth Vader. Now, nearly six years later, employees and users…
AD’s Bruce Worthel and Duane Newhart film a scene in Wilson Hall’s Atrium. A long time ago in a national laboratory far, far away… some physicists looked around their workplace and thought of dark forces. Not dark matter; not dark energy; but the ultimate force from the dark side: Darth Vader… Now, nearly six years later, employees and users at Fermilab can view the results: the first full-length Star Wars fan film. Well, actually, you can see the first 20…
Children learn about physics at the DASTOW 2010 FUNdamentals of Physics show. Photo: Reidar Hahn School-aged children will get a chance to see how education pays off on Wednesday, June 22, when they visit Fermilab for Daughters and Sons to Work day. Fermilab is one of many companies that honors the event in the summer rather than have children miss school in April or May when DASTOW is nationally recognized. Exposing children to workplaces is one way to show them…