From Wired, July 16, 2023: The use of a machine learning tool known as sparse convolutional neural network is now being used by researchers to accelerate real-time data analysis. SCNNs have been used in simulations of the data expected from DUNE and analyzed the simulated data faster than ordinary methods while requiring significantly less computational power.
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From the Black Hills Pioneer, July 7, 2023: Over 2,000 people in Lead, South Dakota celebrated Neutrino Day on July 8, organized by the Sanford Underground Research Facility with LBNF and DUNE members participating. The event featured a science comedian, interactive science booths, virtual underground tours as well as speakers on renewable energy and the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility for DUNE.
From Phys.org, July 5, 2023: Researchers from Ames Laboratory announced important research results done with Fermilab’s SQMS Center that will improve the quantum circuit quality of a vital qubit component. The research was an important step in quantum computing development and proves that collaborative research groups like SQMS with Ames can lead to solving very complex technological and scientific problems.
From the CERN Courier, July 5, 2023: As the popular face of Fermilab on YouTube and outreach events, Don Lincoln discusses the importance of science communications and outreach in an interview with the Courier.
From Big Think, June 22, 2023: Fermilab’s Don Lincoln discusses how the Universe is timeless and dimensionless from a photon’s viewpoint.
From the White House, June 22, 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Joe Biden met last Thursday to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two countries on cutting-edge scientific infrastructure. As part of the agreement, India will supply components worth $140 million to the U.S. Department of Energy’s plans to upgrade the Fermilab accelerator complex to create the most intense high-energy neutrino beams which would help unravel understanding of the evolution of the universe. This contribution is described in number 10 of the White House statement.
From CERN, June 13, 2023: Teams at CERN’s Neutrino Platform are currently upgrading and assembling multiple detectors to help large experiments like the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to uncover the mysteries of neutrinos. But before the full-size detectors are built, CERN has created the large cryostat modules of the ProtoDUNE experiment. The Neutrino Platform is also an assembly station for the Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment in Japan.
From Quanta Magazine, June 8, 2023: A new novel network called sparse convolutional neural network is helping physicists accelerate the daunting challenge of data analysis. It provides the ability to focus on the relevant parts of data and screen out the rest. This is a historic change for the physics community and learn how it can be used in DUNE when the projects starts data later this decade.
From the Black Hills Pioneer, June 10, 2023: The city of Lead announced Fermi Research Alliance contributed a majority of the costs to the improvements of Manuel Brothers Park in Lead, South Dakota. FRA’s contribution will help pay for the concrete pathway that has been built around the perimeter of the park that the is used as a gathering place for many events and activities for the residents throughout the year.
From Phys.org. June 9, 2023: A team of theoretical physicists led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities has discovered a new way to search for axions, hypothetical particles to help explain “Strong CP Problem”, a puzzling phenomenon in which neutrons do not interact with electric fields despite being made up of quarks. The team worked with experimental researchers at Fermilab and this new strategy opens up previously unexplored opportunities to detect axions in particle collider experiments.