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The SQMS Center at Fermilab is developing state-of-the-art quantum computers and sensors for the world’s most advanced particle accelerators. Led by Ann Grassellino, the Center is made-up of 35 partner institutions exploring how novel quantum tools can advance fundamental physics.

The University of Illinois-Chicago’s College of Engineering is preparing students for the
the growing “quantum prairie” of the Midwest. Their students have had access to work on quantum computers and the US Quantum Information Summer School at Fermilab.

Recently, nine female physics students from Illinois Wesleyan University attended the CU*iP at Fermilab. The event supports undergraduate women and gender minorities in their pursuit of physics by providing opportunities such as tours of the lab and the chance to see other women and gender minorities in physics in leading roles.

The NOvA collaboration scientists recently published a study finding no evidence of sterile neutrinos, but their work puts the tightest constraints on parameter space to date for where sterile neutrinos could be found.

Anna Grassellino, senior scientist at Fermilab and the director of the SQMS Center, received the Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on Feb. 13. Knight is one of the five ranks of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the highest honor in Italy.

In recent years, a new SM prediction of the muon g-2 has emerged that questions whether the discrepancy exists at all, suggesting that there is no new physics in the muon. Alex Keshavarzi, a member of the Muon g-2 Experiment and the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative, discusses what is next for the final result for g-2 in 2025.

Two experiments measuring the W boson have two different results. The lead analyzer of the CDF experiment discusses the differing results and what’s next for the W boson measurements.

Recently, the bipartisan supported DOE Quantum Leadership Act was introduced aimed at investing over $2.5 billion in quantum research and development. The bill’s introduction is critical for scaling and commercializing quantum computing.

A detector in the Mediterranean discovered a cosmic neutrino carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date. Fermilab’s Bryan Ramson weighs in the new discovery.

Researchers at Argonne have made a significant breakthrough in the field of high-energy particle detection. The research team made superconducting nanowire photon detectors with different wire sizes and tested them with a beam of 120 GeV protons at Fermilab.