A program funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation supports scientists and students to engage with Fermilab’s neutrino program.
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Technicians take on maintenance and upgrades during Fermilab’s annual accelerator shutdown.
A pair of results bring neutrinos into the new era of multimessenger astronomy.
From FAPESP’s Pesquisa, March 2018: International researchers are constantly looking for lighter particles in the hope of finding dark matter, including at the DarkSide-50 experiment, CDMS and the Dark Energy Survey.
The UK physicist’s pioneering work in high-energy physics have earned him the prize, bestowed by the Institute of Physics.
From Physics Today, July 1, 2018: Fermilab scientist Vladimir Shiltsev, who has worked with the journal Physics–Uspekhi for almost four decades, provides a brief history of the journal, whose centennial was in April 2018.
From Daily Herald, July 10, 2018: There is a patch of suburbia where World Cup excitement is accelerating and loyalties are about to collide: Fermilab, our government’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory in Batavia.
From Gizmodo, July 3, 2018: The Muon g-2 experiment is slated to release new data about the muon magnetic moment as early as next year, which will inform physicists as to whether there are strange, undiscovered particles out there — or not.
Over the last year, the Booster accelerator has been hitting record highs in beam delivery, meeting or exceeding the increased needs of all of the lab’s beam-based experiments.
Fermilab has requested support from local fire departments to contain leak and monitor situation.