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DOE invests $13.7 million for research in data reduction for science

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The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $13.7 million in funding for nine research projects that will advance the state of the art in computer science and applied mathematics. One of the recipients of this funding, Fermilab scientist Nhan Tran will lead a project to explore methods for programming custom hardware accelerators for streaming compression.

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Curious physics results could shed light on dark matter

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Even experiments that aren’t looking for dark matter directly, such as Muon g-2, could give us hints about the mysterious substance that permeates our universe.

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SQMS Center announces the addition of Rutgers University-New Brunswick to its growing collaboration

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Rutgers joins 19 other contributing partners, representing national labs, academia and industry, to conduct SQMS research activities.

Teaching a particle detector new tricks

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Scientists from Fermilab and other institutions hoping to find new, long-lived particles at the Large Hadron Collider recently realized, with CMS, they may already have the detector to do it.

URA names John Mester next executive director and chief executive officer

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The physicist succeeds Marta Cehelsky, who has been at the helm of the Universities Research Association since 2011.

CERN to provide second DUNE cryostat

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CERN deepens its collaboration with the US-based neutrino experiment with the provision of two enormous stainless-steel vessels for DUNE’s cutting-edge liquid-argon detectors.

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Drilling for neutrinos

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Construction crews will excavate around 800,000 tons of rock to make space for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. But first, teams must carve out a quarter-mile-high ventilation shaft.

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Successful tests pave the way for Fermilab’s next-generation particle accelerator

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This spring testing wrapped up at the PIP-II Injector Test Facility, or PIP2IT. The successful outcome paves the way for the construction of PIP-II, a new particle accelerator that will power record-breaking neutrino beams and drive a broad physics research program at Fermilab for the next 50 years.

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Homebound astrophysicists miss mountaintops

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, travel bans and stay-at-home orders meant astrophysicists collaborating on the Dark Energy Survey needed to find a new way to conduct their observations using the Dark Energy Camera.

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