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On April 18, the winners of some of the most lucrative prizes in science, were announced at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony. The Muon g-2 collaboration won the award in Fundamental Physics for the most precise measurement of the muon to date.

IFL Science talks with Chris Polly about the Muon g-2 collaboration’s precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Recently, scientists have determined the mass of the W boson by analyzing more than 1 billion proton-colliding events produced by the LHC at CERN. The precision of the new measurement is on par with a previous measurement made in 2022 by the CDF at Fermilab.

The LBNF/DUNE project hosted by Fermilab has been named the Underground Construction Association’s 2026 Project of the Year.

In recognition of World Quantum Day, Fermilab’s Sara Sussman writes about the first benchmark from NEXUS qubit data. The new data has enabled the training of NVIDIA Ising Calibration, a vision language model for automating the calibration of quantum processors.

A 2022 measurement of the W boson’s mass by the CDF experiment at the Fermilab, while the most precise measurement, differed from the Standard Model prediction. Now, a new calculation of the W boson particle by the CMS collaboration agrees with the Standard Model.

A team of researchers from Fermilab, University of Chicago, Stanford University, and New York University
have developed an electronically-tunable quantum detector that significantly speeds up the search for dark photons, a leading candidate for dark matter.

Researchers at Argonne have successfully commissioned a “giant cage” detector capable of filtering out 99.99% of cosmic background noise for the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab.

Argonne researchers commissioned a device that filters out background signals in the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab, which seeks to observe a rare particle physics process. Such an observation would fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.

Chris Edwards, an Engineering Project Manager at Fermilab, discusses the collaboration with Proficio, utilizing Fermilab’s electron-beam technology to develop methods for treating water contaminated with PFAS.