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Fermilab directors and technicians were at Unicamp recently as part of the technical visit schedule of the research program for neutrino identification called LBNF/DUNE. The Brazilian team is developing the technology for photodetection of the light generated by the particle detectors and the production of highly pure liquid argon.

As the Quantum Science Center prepares to move forward into the next era of research, QSC Director Travis Humble highlighted the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit developed at Fermilab as a significant accomplishment.

A NEWTON project is in partnership with Argonne and Fermilab to develop a practical approach to reduce the size and cost of superconducting linear accelerators while simultaneously improving their reliability.

In South Dakota, at SURF, scientists have built three huge tunnels about 1,500 meters below the ground. Here, a massive experiment called DUNE is taking place with more than 1,400 scientists from 35 countries.

When theory and experiment disagree, it could mean new physics. With the recent announcement of the most precise measurement of the magnetic moment of the muon, the anomaly is no more.

Argonne and Fermilab were granted the funding as part of ARPA-E’s Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now program to design a compact, cost-effective accelerator that can transmute long-lived nuclear waste into safer material.

The SQMS Center is working on reproducible and scalable realization of highly coherent superconducting qubits to open the way to more complex and scalable quantum computing operations. These capabilities could be used in Fermilab’s core particle physics research and fundamental physics more generally over time.

Muon g-2 collaborator describes the latest precision of the muon measurement to an an 11,000-pound elephant standing on a bathroom scale. The scale is so precise, it can measure if a couple of sunflower seeds are placed on the elephant’s back.

Final results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment was announced on June 3, showing a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.

The deviant behavior of a tiny particle called the muon might point to undiscovered forms of matter and energy in the universe. Or it might not.