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In 2022, the CDF experiment at Fermilab measured the W boson mass and found a challenge in the predictions of physics. However, the LHC measurement of the mass of the W boson found the exact expected value. What now?

SURF recently finished the overhaul of the Yates mine shaft that transports personnel and supplies for experiments underground, including DUNE. The Yates Shaft is one of two mineshafts inside 370 miles of tunnels and shafts that was once North America’s deepest gold mine.

Fermilab Senior Scientist Grigory Eremeev built and tested the first niobium-tin alloy cryomodule called Gray Enid I as part of his DOE Early Career Award when he was at Jefferson Lab. The cryomodule, is now being prepared for its first electron beam tests.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
highlighted nuclear scientist, Elina Mishra from Bhubaneswar on International Women’s Day. Mishra and her team designed and developed several focusing quadrupole magnets and beam steering dipole corrector magnets for the 800 MeV Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) program at Fermilab.

A new study explores the possibility of studying the sun’s interiors using neutrinos. By studying oscillations at different energy levels, scientists can infer details about the sun’s density structure beyond what traditional models provide.

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.