From Source Ability, August 16, 2023
Scientists are using a new machine learning tool called sparse convolutional neural networks, or SCNNs, to analyze data faster and more efficiently than ever before. SCNNs are expected to play a critical role in analyzing the data gathered from the upcoming DUNE experiment.
From NPR, August 20, 2023
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab’s most precise measurements of the muon particle’s magnetic wobble.
From Popular Science, August 17, 2023: Breaking the Standard Model would be one of the biggest moments in particle physics history. The Muon g-2 collaboration reported that the muon doesn’t always look like physicists expect it to look, but the collaboration isn’t done. Once they analyze all the remaining data, physicists believe they can make their g minus 2 estimate twice as precise again.
From the Black Hills Pioneer, August 19, 2023
Plans are moving ahead for the liquid nitrogen refrigeration system which will use liquid nitrogen to cool the 17,500 tons of liquid argon that will fill the neutrino detectors at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility in the Sanford Lab. The system is expected to be built by 2026, and operational underground by the end of 2026 to support the installation of some detector elements, and the operations of the full facility starting in early 2028.
From Le Monde, August 16, 2023: The characteristics muons were analyzed in an ongoing experiment by the Muon g-2 collaboration at Fermilab and the results are shaking up the theory community.
From Universe Today, August 14, 2023: In a recent announcement, scientists at Fermilab and the international Muon g-2 collaboration made the world’s most precise measurement of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment, improving the precision of their previous measurements by a factor of 2. With this measurement, the collaboration has achieved its goal of decreasing systematic uncertainties caused by experimental imperfections.
From Univision, August 11. 2023 (Right click to translate to English): The Muon g-2 results announced last week confirm muons did not behave as predicted by the current theory of physics, the Standard Model. The announcement brings physicists closer to discoveries such as whether there are more types of matter and energy that make up the universe than have been accounted for.
From The Conversation, Aug. 10, 2023: The new results of the Muon g-2 experiment are summarized by a group of Postdocs from the University of Liverpool. The latest results examined four times as many muons as the 2021 result, cutting the total uncertainty by a factor of two. This makes the measurement the most precise determination of the muon’s wobble ever made on Muon g-2.
From the Chicago Tribune, Aug. 10, 2023: This week Fermilab hosted the first U.S. Quantum Information Science school for 150 students, including scientists, researchers, college students and industry professionals. The program aims to educate the next generation of researchers on quantum device design and fabrication; quantum computing algorithms; quantum sensing; and cryogenics.
From Interesting Engineering, Aug. 9, 2023: For more than a decade, SLAC has been preparing to power the world’s most powerful X-ray free electron laser by getting electrons to fly through a new superconducting accelerator called the Linac Coherent Light Source II. Fermilab is one of the four national labs to contribute to the engineering of this powerful superconducting X-ray machine.