Wizardly neutrinos
Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects? Watch the four-minute, Harry Potter-inspired explanation.
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ProtoDUNE revealed
From CERN Courier, Feb. 15, 2017: CERN makes rapid progress towards prototype detectors for the international DUNE experiment.
LHCb observes rare decay
Standard Model predictions align with the LHCb experiment’s observation of an uncommon decay.
What ended the dark ages of the universe?
New experiments will help astronomers uncover the sources that helped make the universe transparent.
Schools embrace catapults, oil spills and other methods of STEM learning
From The Doings/Chicago Tribune, Feb. 3, 2017: STEM events in LaGrange included a visit from Fermilab’s Jerry Zimmerman, better known as Mr. Freeze, and his demonstrations of cryogenics.
Michael Syphers named to national panel on high-energy physics
From NIU Today, Feb. 1, 2017: The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation have appointed Michael Syphers, a senior research professor of physics at NIU and former Fermilab physicist, to serve as a member of the national High Energy Physics Advisory Panel.
Road trip science
The Escaramujo Project delivered detector technology by van to eight universities in Latin America.
Taking down a giant: 699 tons of SLAC’s accelerator removed for upgrade
From SLAC, Jan. 31, 2017: A full kilometer of SLAC’s historic linac has been stripped of all its equipment. Over the next two years it will be re-equipped with new technology to power an X-ray laser, LCLS-II. Fermilab and Jefferson Lab are building the cryomodules for its superconducting portion.
Sign of a long-sought asymmetry
A result from the LHCb experiment shows what could be the first evidence of matter and antimatter baryons behaving differently.