Chopping beam to your taste August 21, 2018 | Leah Hesla and Alexander Shemyakin A Fermilab accelerator team has designed a device that chops accelerator-generated ion beams under highly demanding conditions.
Artur Apresyan receives $2.5 million award to develop detectors for High-Luminosity LHC August 21, 2018 | Leah Hesla The upgraded collider will produce collisions at seven times the rate of the current LHC. Apresyan’s work will ensure the CMS detector can take on the particle flood.
ICARUS neutrino detector installed in new Fermilab home August 16, 2018 | Leah Hesla ICARUS now sits in the path of Fermilab’s neutrino beam, a milestone that brings the detector one step closer to taking data.
Mapping the universe in 3-D: Fermilab contributes to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument August 13, 2018 | Jordan Rice DESI, an instrument to help scientists get to the bottom of the dark energy mystery, is getting a little help from Fermilab.
Javier Tiffenberg wins $2.5 million DOE award for research on pixelated detectors August 8, 2018 | Lauren Biron The DOE Early Career Award will fund research and development for special technology to study the lightest and most elusive particles.
A dual-phase DUNE August 7, 2018 | Lauren Biron The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is advancing technology commonly used in dark matter experiments—and scaling it up to record-breaking sizes.
One minute with JoRee LaFrance, hydrology intern August 2, 2018 | Jordan Rice Growing up on the Crow reservation in Montana inspired JoRee LaFrance to pursue a career in hydrology.
Machine learning proliferates in particle physics August 1, 2018 | Manuel Gnida A new review in Nature chronicles the many ways machine learning is popping up in particle physics research.
DUNE collaboration completes Interim Design Report for gigantic particle detectors July 30, 2018 | Kurt Riesselmann Experience gained during the construction of prototype detectors paves the way toward the final design of the DUNE detectors.
Accelerator excellence July 24, 2018 | Sarah Lawhun Fermilab’s Lia Merminga talks to Symmetry about her early experiences in STEM and her drive to solve science’s unanswered questions.