PIP-II team successfully transports first cryomodule between U.K. and Fermilab January 22, 2024 HB650PIP-IIFermilab feature 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…
Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into the expansion of the universe January 8, 2024 dark energyDESsupernovaPress release 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…
Pantaleo Raimondi to be new leader of Fermilab’s accelerator project October 30, 2023 leadershipPIP-IIFermilab feature 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…
DOE Project Leadership Institute award returns to Fermilab October 4, 2023 awardleadershipFermilab feature 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,…
CERN moves forward with support for Fermilab-hosted neutrino experiment, DUNE September 25, 2023 CERNDUNEdune-internationalinternational engagementFermilab feature 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….
Indian scientists come to Fermilab to assist with PIP-II particle accelerator technology August 3, 2023 cryomoduleIndiaPIP-IIFermilab feature …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…
IceCube and NANOGrav open new windows onto the universe August 1, 2023 gravitational waveIceCubeMilky WayneutrinoSymmetry feature
Practice makes perfect (particle detectors) April 18, 2023 acceleratorAPACERNcryomoduleDUNEneutrinoPIP-IIprototypeSymmetry feature
