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Pantaleo Raimondi has long been fascinated by how things work. “I like to understand everything. I don’t want to leave anything unexplored,” Raimondi said. “Even in a car, I try…

India’s Department of Atomic Energy, or DAE, reached a milestone in their participation in building a 215-meter-long particle accelerator in the United States, known as the Proton Improvement Plan II…

A highly technical and delicate piece of equipment weighing 27,500 pounds, or 12,500 kilograms, just made a whirlwind transatlantic trip in its custom transportation frame. The fully equipped prototype of…

By Madeleine O’Keefe In 1998, astrophysicists discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, attributed to a mysterious entity called dark energy that makes up about 70% of…

The Proton Improvement Plan II project, known as PIP-II, is a billion-dollar enhancement to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory accelerator complex. The project is constructing a…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Project Leadership Institute has awarded Cristian Boffo a 2022 PLI Capstone Project Award. Boffo is project manager for the Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II,…

Neutrinos are the most abundant matter particles in the universe. Lightweight and elusive, they may hold the key to answering some of the greatest mysteries in particle physics and astrophysics….

…of remote coordination. Scientists at RRCAT in India developed and built this prototype 40-kilowatt solid-state radiofrequency amplifier for PIP-II before shipping it to Fermilab for testing. Photo: Madeleine O’Keefe, Fermilab…