Kathryn Grim
Tengming Shen was awarded a DOE Early Career Award to develop a high-performance superconducting material for accelerator technology. Photo: Reidar Hahn Over the years, engineers have found ways to cram more and more transistors onto a single integrated circuit. As a result of these improvements, they have been able to pack more computing power into smaller machines. In much the same way, the key to developing better high-energy particle accelerators has been building increasingly powerful magnets to put inside them….
Leah Hesla A new editor has taken the helm of Fermilab’s daily publication. Leah Hesla, who entered Fermilab’s Office of Communication as an intern in 2010, succeeds Ashley WennersHerron as editor of Fermilab Today this week. Hesla earned her undergraduate degree in physics at University of Texas at Austin and her graduate degree in science writing at Johns Hopkins University. She sees editing Fermilab Today as her way to indulge her love of writing and editing while remaining a part…
Throughout its stages, Project X could provide beam for more than 20 experiments. Image: Fermilab Members of the team planning the accelerator project that will power Fermilab’s future experiments announced this week that they have developed ways to construct the project in three stages. With their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide the endeavor, Project X, into phases in order to lessen its annual costs. Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy asked Fermilab to look…
Members of the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab pose with the first paper published by the CMS collaboration in February 2010. LPC members worked with heavy ion physicists to produce a recent result on quark gluon plasma. Credit: Elizabeth Clements. Scientists from the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab recently helped to uncover further evidence of a state of matter scientists tie to the birth of the universe. Their research gives scientists new insights into the properties of quark gluon plasma,…
Joe Incandela Members of the CMS collaboration have elected as their new spokesperson Joe Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the first scientist from a U.S. institution to be elected spokesperson of an experiment at the LHC. Incandela’s primary aim as spokesperson will be to help CMS collaboration board chair members create a sustainable mode of working together that allows them to fulfill all of their future goals, he said. “I want us to…
CERN’s Marco Villa, center, explains to EDIT students Peter-Bernd Otte, left, and Tom Barber, right, how to use a gas electron multiplier detector. Photo by Kathryn Grim Employees wandering the halls of CERN early this month overheard some unusual exchanges: teachers encouraging students to break their equipment. Eighty-eight students attended EDIT2011, the Excellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies school. They had a unique opportunity to hold, manipulate and sometimes destroy sensitive devices usually buried out of reach in the centers…