Fermilab Scientists Present New Physics Results at ICHEP Beijing
Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are presenting new results from experiments performed at the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator during the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics in Beijing, China, August 16-22.
How They Spent Their Summer Vacation: QuarkNet Students Experience Real Work of Fermilab Scientists
Inaugurating a new phase of the QuarkNet education program, four local high school students spent eight weeks soldering electronic equipment, writing code for computer programs, analyzing data from particle physics experiments, standing shifts in a particle detector control room, attending lectures and collaboration meetings, and experiencing the real-life environment and challenges of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Fermilab Supports Energy Department Science Education Initiative
Following the launch today by Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham of a major new Department of Energy initiative for science education, officials of DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory expressed support for the new program.
Fermilab Inaugurates StarLight Connection
Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today (Thursday) announced a potential five-hundredfold increase in the laboratory’s computer network connections to U.S. and international science communities.
Surprise: Fermilab’s SELEX experiment finds puzzling new particle
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will announce on Friday, June 18 the observation of an unexpected new member of a family of subatomic particles called “heavy-light” mesons.
Fermilab Results Change Higgs Mass Estimate
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today (June 9) announced new results that change the best estimate of the mass of the postulated Higgs boson
Fermilab’s Main Injector Wetland Mitigation Project Wins 2003 Conservation and Native Landscaping Award
BATAVIA, Ill. – On Tuesday, May 11, 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Chicago Wilderness presented the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with a 2003 Conservation and Native Landscaping Award at a ceremony in Chicago’s Jackson Park. Bharat Mathur, Acting Regional Administrator for U.S. EPA Region 5, and Elizabeth McCance, Director of Conservation Programs for Chicago Wilderness, cited Fermilab’s achievement in using native plants in the Main Injector Wetland Mitigation Project. “These awards recognize outstanding examples where…
First Fermilab LHC magnet leaves Illinois, bound for Geneva
Officials of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, and of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, in Geneva, announced today (Tuesday) the shipment of an advanced superconducting magnet from Fermilab to CERN.
First Data From Deep Underground Experiment Narrow Search for Dark Matter
With the first data from their underground observatory in Northern Minnesota, scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search have peered with greater sensitivity than ever before into the suspected realm of the WIMPs.
Fermilab welcomes buffalo fans
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory invites buffalo fans to visit its herd of about 50 buffalo, including 16 young animals born since April 12.