John Voirin
John Voirin John Voirin, Experiment Installation Group leader, wrote this column. Tools are a reflection of our power to control our environment, symbols of human empowerment. Humans make and use tools to enhance our own skills and energies. The PPD Experiment Installation Group has a wide variety of tools at its disposal, and they all eventually come into play as we work to fulfill the lab’s mission. Over the years our group has installed many experiments: KTeV, MINOS, MINERvA, ArgoNeuT…
This portable compressor allows PPD to store recycled gas for future experiments. Photo: John Voirin, PPD Recycling is important at Fermilab. We reuse at every opportunity in order to push science further while keeping costs down. A recent and successful example of our scientific recycling is the fluid preservation for MINERvA. The neutrino experiment is used to examine neutrino interactions, the study of which could lead to an understanding of why there is an imbalance of matter and antimatter in…