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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.

Cristian Boffo, Project Director of Fermilab’s PIP-II project, discusses the progress made so far in the major upgrade to Fermilab’s accelerator complex and what this means for future discovery.

LSA Magazine spoke with associate scientist Bryan Ramson about neutrinos, which play a fundamental role in unlocking the mysteries of the universe.