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.
Photographer Adam Nadel selected as Fermilab’s new artist-in-residence for 2018
Fermilab is pleased to announce that New York-based photographer Adam Nadel has been selected as the lab’s artist-in-residence for 2018.
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.
UK commits $88 million to LBNF/DUNE in first-ever umbrella science agreement with U.S.
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- international engagement
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- neutrino
- United Kingdom
The United Kingdom and the United States have signed the first ever umbrella science and technology agreement between the two nations, and the UK has committed $88 million to the LBNF/DUNE project.
Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe
- Brookhaven
- California
- cosmology
- dark energy
- Dark Energy Survey
- dark matter
- Illinois
- New York
- Ohio
- Ohio State University
- SLAC
- United Kingdom
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dark Energy Survey scientists have unveiled the most accurate measurement ever made of the present large-scale structure of the universe, and their findings support the dark matter/dark energy model.
Come one, come all to Fermilab’s Community Open House on Sept. 23
Fifty years of scientific discovery is a good reason for a celebration. And that’s just what the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has in store on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.