Cleanroom is a verb
Although they might be invisible to the naked eye, contaminants less than a micron in size can ruin very sensitive experiments in particle physics.
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PIP-II: Renewing Fermilab’s accelerator complex
The Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II, is a proposed project to improve Fermilab’s particle accelerator complex with a major hardware overhaul and a powerful boost in its capabilities.
An avian mixed bag reflects Fermilab’s diverse ecosystem
Fermilab’s popularity as a birding site is its diversity of species, a measure of the quality of the habitat. Birders have found 287 bird species at Fermilab.
The light side of dark matter
New technology and new thinking are pushing the dark matter hunt to lower and lower masses.
Fermilab attains unprecedented quality factor for LCLS-II accelerator cavity
Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division recently achieved a record-high quality factor with a fully dressed cavity for a SLAC-headed project, Linac Coherent Light Source II.
The particle physics of you
Not only are we made of fundamental particles, we also produce them and are constantly bombarded by them throughout the day.
MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos
The MicroBooNE collaboration announced that it has seen its first neutrinos in the experiment’s newly built detector.
The particle physics personality quiz
What topic in particle physics are you destined to study? Take the quiz to find out!
Frightfully smart jack-o’-lanterns
These physics-themed jack-o’-lanterns come with extra brains.
What happens when you kidnap a muon?
The forthcoming Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will kidnap muons and trap them in aluminum atoms. But what exactly happens when you shoot a muon at an aluminum foil? While Mu2e is under construction, its scientists are already getting some valuable answers from a smaller accomplice: AlCap.