The 2013 documentary Particle Fever follows physicists from the start-up of the LHC through the discovery of the Higgs boson. Where are those physicists now?
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Fermilab Director Lia Merminga was one of the scientists participating in a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Energy on June 22. Merminga provided testimony in the “Investigating the Nature of Matter, Energy, Space and Time” hearing, where she discussed the importance of high-energy physics research to the United States and global stakeholders along with its societal applications.
Senior engineering students designed a portable cleanroom and a modular cryomodule mockup for Fermilab’s new accelerator complex upgrade project.
The discovery of the Higgs boson inspired young people around the world to pursue a career in science and technology.
From NBC News, June 14, 2022: The faster and stronger LHC at CERN, scheduled to restart this summer, is stirring up renewed excitement in the discovery of particles that make up dark matter. While the LHC has been dormant for ten years, it has received upgrades while other accelerators like Fermilab’s Tevatron have made discoveries that point to possible “new physics.”
Professors are finding new ways to show students that physics is more than just a set of laws and equations.
The award is intended to support researchers early in their careers when many scientists do their most formative work.
Meet a physicist who ran away to join the circus.
From Ceska Televize (Czech Republic TV-right click to translate the page to English), June 6: A delegation from the Czech Republic visited Fermilab last week in which the scientific collaboration between Fermilab and the Czech Republic on DUNE was highlighted by Fermilab director Lia Merminga. See highlights of the delegation’s tour and interviews with Lia and Fermilab scientist Jaroslav Zalesak.
A postdoc on the PIP-II project, Pathak works on beam dynamics and also enjoys riding his bike around Fermilab and admiring the blue sky of the Illinois prairieland.