Fermilab Natural Areas offers internship August 17, 2022 The Robert F. Betz Autumn Internship is sponsored by Fermilab Natural Areas, a nonprofit corporation operating exclusively within the boundaries of Fermilab. The intern will be assisting in habitat management at the 6,800-acre Batavia site and can expect to gain a broad understanding of ecological restoration practices and applications as well as theory. Duties will include: native seed collection and processing, invasive species control using brush .... More
Fermilab Outdoor Family Fair returns Sept. 18 August 17, 2022 The Fermilab Education Office and Fermilab Friends for Science Education will be hosting an Outdoor Family Fair on Sunday, Sept. 18, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. As a welcome back to Fermilab after its hiatus due to COVID, the Outdoor Family Fair has many activities to offer. Mr. Freeze will be doing his show outdoors. There will be music provided by Michael Offutt. The Naperville .... More
Tasty recipes August 17, 2022 Working with special materials is nothing new at the village machine shop. Often, machinists document learned “recipes” for working with special materials. In the right hands, these unpublished works of expertise are worth more than gold.
Design thinking and the Disco-tracker August 16, 2022 As part of a class on design thinking, a graduate student turned her research topic into an art installation resembling a giant disco ball.
After 40 years at the lab, Jim Patrick retires August 16, 2022 After 40 years of service at Fermilab, Jim Patrick will retire on Sept. 7. Patrick started his career as a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the Mark II detector group at the SPEAR and PEP e+e- colliders at SLAC. He began as a postdoc at Fermilab in 1982 in Alvin Tollestrup's group in CDF. He worked on the CDF data acquisition system, becoming the .... More
GCC and FCC data center network maintenance Thursday, Aug. 18 August 16, 2022 WHAT ARE WE DOING? To prepare for a network hardware migration, Computing will be migrating existing Layer 2 VLANS (Virtual Local Area Networks) in Grid Computing Center (GCC) and Feynman Computing Center (FCC) data centers to a new VLAN type. The current network hardware/firmware is approaching its end-of-support. WHEN WILL THIS OCCUR? Thursday, Aug. 18; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central Time WHAT IS THE IMPACT TO YOU? During this .... More
Fine tuning August 16, 2022 Nicola Valori, an Italian Summer Intern, precisely aligns the optics of a laser magnetometer for the Muon g-2 experiment.
Excavation of huge caverns for DUNE particle detector is underway August 15, 2022 Excavation of the large caverns for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility is in full swing. Over a third of the whopping 800,000 tons that need to be extracted from a mile underground have been removed. When finished, the underground facility will cover an area about the size of eight soccer fields and provide space for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Physicists spotted rare W boson trios at the Large Hadron Collider From Science News, August 15, 2022: W bosons are particles that transmit the weak force, which is responsible for certain types of radioactive decay. Last April, Fermilab researchers reported the W boson was more massive than predicted, hinting that something may be amiss with the standard model. Now a team of scientists with ATLAS at the LHC are reporting rare boson triplets which continues to test the standard model for any cracks.
A mile underground: the large caverns and detectors of DUNE August 15, 2022 The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is an international experiment to unlock the mysteries of neutrinos. DUNE will be installed in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, under construction in the United States. One mile underground, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, the excavation of the large LBNF caverns for the DUNE far detectors is in full swing. When complete, the LBNF underground facility will cover an area about the size of eight soccer fields.