One minute with Mingzhi Shen, network analyst December 3, 2019 peopleFermilab feature …I went back to school to get a master’s in network engineering and management, and the rest is history. How did you hear about Fermilab? I was completing my master’s…
How do you make the world’s most powerful neutrino beam? November 13, 2019 Deep Underground Neutrino ExperimentDUNELBNFLong-Baseline Neutrino FacilityneutrinoSanford LabSanford Underground Research FacilitySouth DakotaFermilab feature …crucial piece of engineering. While still being designed, it’s likely to be a 1.5-meter-long rod of pure graphite — think of your pencil lead on steroids. Together with some other…
Prep work to start for DUNE-related construction at Fermilab November 12, 2019 Deep Underground Neutrino ExperimentDUNELBNFLong-Baseline Neutrino FacilityneutrinoFermilab feature …end of this 800-mile neutrino journey is known as the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility – and the LBNF beamline at Fermilab will perhaps be its most sophisticated piece of engineering. But…
Target practice: Perfecting the Mu2e production target November 5, 2019 Mu2etargetryFermilab feature …these engineering and design challenges, and now new stuff shows up and gets installed every week. You can actually see the progress,” Werkema says. “I’ve worked on a lot of…
Dark matter experiment’s central component takes a deep dive — nearly a mile underground October 29, 2019 Berkeley Labdark matterLUX-ZEPLINLZSanford LabSanford Underground Research FacilityPress release …Underground Research Facility’s mission is to enable compelling underground, interdisciplinary research in a safe work environment and to inspire our next generation through science, technology, engineering, and math education. For…
Hahn shot first October 28, 2019 artFermilab Art GalleryphotographyFermilab feature …they explore accessible to a wider audience.” For Hahn, who also has a degree in technical communication, it’s been a 32-year education in physics and engineering – one that he’s…
Scaling up this floating coil: Meet the new prototype in electromagnetic oil spill remediation technology October 10, 2019 technology transferFermilab feature …ramp and separator apparatus. Much engineering has gone into making these components work together as an oil spill solution. Fermilab and Natural Science LLC have reached an agreement to develop…
MAGIS-100: Atoms in free fall to probe dark matter, gravity and quantum science September 26, 2019 dark mattergravitational waveMAGIS-100quantum scienceFermilab feature …expertise in engineering particle accelerators and other large scientific instruments, these technological advances make it possible to construct this interferometer and broach new realms. Pushing the quantum boundaries In an…
Theorists discover the "Rosetta Stone" for neutrino physics September 23, 2019 resulttheoryFermilab feature Linear algebra is a field of mathematics that has been thoroughly investigated for many centuries, providing invaluable tools used not only in mathematics, but also across physics and engineering as…
Ultracool engineering: Worldwide experts gather at Fermilab for first international workshop on cryogenic electronics for quantum systems September 18, 2019 engineeringquantum computingquantum information sciencequantum scienceFermilab feature Andrew Dzurak of the University of New South Wales gives the workshop’s keynote address. Photo: Edoardo Charbon It’s a cold truth about quantum computing: To operate, the leading types of…