It’s baby bison time at Fermilab!
On Wednesday, April 18, baby bison season officially began at Fermilab. The first calf of the year was born in the early morning hours, with a second appearing before noon. Neighbors are welcome to visit with the newborns.
U.S., India sign agreement providing for neutrino physics collaboration at Fermilab and in India
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- dune-international
- India
- India-Based Neutrino Observatory
- internationality
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- neutrino
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and India’s Atomic Energy Secretary Sekhar Basu signed an agreement that opens the way for jointly advancing LBNF/DUNE.
ADMX announces breakthrough in axion dark matter detection technology
- ADMX
- axion
- Brookhaven
- California
- dark matter
- Florida
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- New York
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- University of Florida
- University of Rochester
- University of Washington
- Washington
New result draws on 30 years of research and development and begins the definitive search for axion particles.
Installation phase of next-generation dark energy experiment begins
- Arizona
- astrophysics
- Berkeley Lab
- California
- dark energy
- DESI
- Harvard University
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- Massachusetts
- SLAC
- United Kingdom
Installation has begun for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, a next-generation astrophysics tool. Fermilab is managing key parts of the construction of the instrument, which will begin its five-year observation run in 2019.
Fermilab delivers first cryomodule for ultrapowerful X-ray laser at SLAC
A Fermilab team built and tested the first new superconducting accelerator cryomodule for the LCLS-II project, which will be the nation’s only X-ray free-electron laser facility.
Dark Energy Survey publicly releases first three years of data
- Australia
- Brazil
- Chile
- dark energy
- Dark Energy Camera
- Dark Energy Survey
- dark matter
- Illinois
- stellar streams
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey announced the public release of their first three years of data. This first major release of data includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects.
Celebrate the unseen: Attend a Dark Matter Day event
- Austria
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- dark matter
- event
- France
- Germany
- Interactions
- Italy
- Mexico
- Peru
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
The world will soon be celebrating the hunt for the universe’s most elusive matter in a series of Dark Matter Day events planned in over a dozen countries.
Quantum physics boosts artificial intelligence methods
Researchers from Caltech and the University of Southern California report the first application of quantum computing to a physics problem. By employing quantum-compatible machine learning techniques, they developed a method of extracting a rare Higgs boson signal from copious noise data.
Scientists spot explosive counterpart of LIGO/Virgo’s latest gravitational waves
- Brandeis University
- Chile
- Dark Energy Survey
- gravitational wave
- Illinois
- kilonova
- LIGO
- Louisiana
- Ohio
- Ohio University
- Texas
- Texas A&M University
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Virgo
- Washington
A team of scientists using the Dark Energy Camera was among the first to observe the fiery aftermath of a recently detected burst of gravitational waves, recording images of the first confirmed explosion from two colliding neutron stars ever seen by astronomers.
MSU’s Steven Lund chosen as new head of U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Lund has been a professor at MSU since 2014 and currently serves on both the Director’s Advisory Council and the Curriculum Committee for the USPAS, working with Director Barletta to coordinate school programs in the community interest.