Fermilab’s Anna Grassellino receives prestigious Marisa Bellisario Award July 9, 2024 The Italian Marisa Bellisario Award was presented to Anna Grassellino, an Italian and American scientist with Fermilab who was recognized in the international category for her scientific work and leadership.
Fermilab announces new high school student technician apprenticeship and lab engineering innovation support June 25, 2024 DOE Office of Science will support two new areas of growth for Fermilab: high school student apprenticeship to expand the technicians’ teams and lab engineers in the development of innovative ideas.
Revived technology utilized to count individual photons from distant galaxies June 24, 2024 Enabled by a U.S. Department of Energy program, a collaboration of scientists from Fermilab, UChicago, NOIRLab and other institutions demonstrated that skipper-CCD detectors can be utilized to improve cosmology research
New NOvA results add to mystery of neutrinos June 18, 2024 The international collaboration presented their first results with new data in four years, featuring a new low-energy sample of electron neutrinos and a dataset doubled in size.
Fermilab opens new QUIET underground quantum information science laboratory June 12, 2024 The new state-of-the-art QUIET laboratory will study the performance of qubits isolated from cosmic radiation. Its above ground counterpart is LOUD and together they will enable controlled experiments of quantum sensors.
Fermilab names Jim Kerby as LBNF/DUNE-US project director June 4, 2024 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Jim Kerby as project director for Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (LBNF/DUNE-US) He will be responsible for managing all aspects of the project in the U.S. as Fermilab leads the execution of the largest international DOE project ever hosted on U.S. soil.
Fermilab champions Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility with awards ceremony May 29, 2024 Eighteen staff members at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory were recognized for their leadership and work to uphold and further the equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility principals at Fermilab. The recipients were honored with awards during a ceremony held at the lab’s iconic Wilson Hall in March.
QUIET: a place to study qubits shielded from the effects of cosmic rays May 23, 2024 A new underground research space at Fermilab allows scientists to study superconducting quantum qubits in an environment with significantly reduced interference caused by cosmic rays. The laboratory, called QUIET, has a twin at the Earth’s surface named LOUD. This arrangement allows for controlled direct comparisons of quantum sensor and computing experiments.
A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence May 17, 2024 Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe.
Researchers at the SQMS Center achieve leading performance in transmon qubits May 15, 2024 Through unique qubit fabrication techniques, scientists have demonstrated systematic improvements in the performance of superconducting devices for quantum computing, communication, and sensing.