India formally begins construction phase for contributions to Fermilab’s new particle accelerator February 15, 2024 India’s Department of Atomic Energy is making a $140 million in-kind contribution to the PIP-II accelerator under construction at Fermilab. Indian institutions will provide a number of technical components for the new machine. The collaboration provides Indian scientists the training, technical insight and know-how for the development of their domestic particle accelerator program.
Accomplished composer and pianist Mischa Zupko from Chicago named 2024 guest composer February 14, 2024 Mischa Zupko, adjunct faculty member of the School of Music at DePaul University, will collaborate with scientists at Fermilab and members of the Chicago-based Civitas Ensemble to create music based on scientific models in particle science.
Silvia Zorzetti receives DOE Early Career Award for her quantum research February 8, 2024 Zorzetti’s research aims to help preserve quantum information by focusing on improvements to the way we transport it. The award provides $2.5 million over the next five years to support her work.
From life experience to research experience February 6, 2024 A former retail worker finds the confidence to pursue a career in STEM thanks to an internship program designed for students at small colleges.
Fermilab offers weeklong hands-on camp to educate and inspire students in STEM February 6, 2024 The Science Accelerating Girls’ Engagement in STEM program promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. The second annual SAGE camp at Fermilab provided women and gender minority students a hands-on opportunity to experience work and research. The next camp will take place in July.
U.S. CMS collaborators receive approval for massive detector upgrade February 5, 2024 The U.S. Department of Energy has given the green light for the U.S.-funded portion of the upgrades to the CMS experiment at CERN. The massive overhaul will prepare the experiment for the high-luminosity era of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed February 1, 2024 The excavation of the caverns that will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in Lead, South Dakota is complete. Final outfitting of the colossal caverns will begin soon and make way for the start of the installation of the DUNE detectors later this year.
Researchers at Fermilab use electron beams to eradicate forever chemicals in water January 29, 2024 Researchers at Fermilab have demonstrated that particle accelerator technology can be used to destroy chemicals known as PFAS, which cannot be broken down effectively by other known methods.
CMS scientists expand search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider January 25, 2024 One of the big, recent innovations by the CMS collaboration—a new trigger installed in their experiment at the Large Hadron Collider—has produced its first data set. The analysis of this data has started. Scientists expect it will either reveal new physics or set more stringent limits in the search for long-lived particles.
Innovative MAGIS-100 quantum experiment at Fermilab bolstered by support from U.K. January 24, 2024 Fermilab signs international agreement with U.K. institutions to collaborate on building a 100-meter-long atom interferometry experiment. It will enable scientists to demonstrate the superposition of atoms and advance the search for ultralight dark-matter particles.
