Fermilab seeks “Citizen Scientist” volunteers for prairie study
Members of the public are invited to become “citizen scientists” and help ecologists track prairie restoration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Prairie Quadrat Program.
Fermilab physicists discover “triple-scoop” baryon
Three-quark particle contains one quark from each family.
Warrenville student Kathleen Stanley receives scholarship from Fermilab Friends for Science Education
Kathleen Stanley of Warrenville, a graduating senior at Rosary High School in Aurora who hopes to major in chemical engineering in college, has been named the recipient of the Fermilab Science Award and scholarship, sponsored by the Fermilab Friends for Science Education and the Franklin Fund.
Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab celebrate as Governor Blagojevich proclaims April 21 as Illinois Particle Accelerator Day
In celebration of Particle Accelerator Day this weekend in Illinois, two U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have planned events at their respective accelerator facilities.
Tevatron collider yields new results on subatomic matter, forces
Scientists of the CDF and DZero experiments at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory presented today (April 15) at the annual April meeting of the American Physical Society the latest results of intriguing measurements made with the Tevatron particle collider.
MiniBooNE opens the box
Results from Fermilab experiment resolve long-standing neutrino question
Down with physics: Giant CMS magnet goes underground at CERN
Scientists of the US CMS collaboration joined colleagues around the world in announcing today (February 28) that the heaviest piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector has begun the momentous journey into its experimental cavern 100 meters underground.
CDF precision measurement of W-boson mass suggests a lighter Higgs particle
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (January 8, 2007) the world’s most precise measurement by a single experiment of the mass of the W boson, the carrier of the weak nuclear force and a key parameter of the Standard Model of particles and forces.
DZero finds evidence of rare single top quark; observation marks a step closer to finding Higgs boson
Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced in a seminar at Fermilab on December 8, 2006 the first evidence of single top quarks produced in a rare subatomic process involving the weak nuclear force.
Experimenters at Fermilab discover exotic relatives of protons and neutrons
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (October 23, 2006) the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the much more common proton and neutron.