United States and Italy sign agreement to collaborate on sterile neutrino research June 29, 2018 dune-internationalICARUSinternational engagementinternational relationsinternationalityItalyneutrinoShort-Baseline Neutrino programPress release On June 28, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Italian Embassy signed an agreement for collaboration on research with the international Short-Baseline Neutrino program hosted at Fermilab.
Mobilizing Brazilian scientists for DUNE June 28, 2018 BrazilDeep Underground Neutrino ExperimentDUNEdune-internationalinternational engagementinternational relationsinternationalityLBNFLong-Baseline Neutrino FacilitypeopleFermilab feature Ronald Shellard, director of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, discusses the past, present and future of Brazil-Fermilab scientific collaboration.
New laser technology shows success in particle accelerators June 21, 2018 acceleratoraccelerator scienceaccelerator technologyFermilab feature The addition of a laser notcher to the Fermilab accelerator complex is an innovative use of familiar technology.
Waiting for a sign June 19, 2018 CaliforniaCERNCMSCUOREGran SassoItalyNA62neutrinoOPERASLACSuperCDMSSwitzerlandSymmetry feature Some scientists spend decades trying to catch a glimpse of a rare process. But with good experimental design and a lot of luck, they often need only a handful of signals to make a discovery.
The secret to measuring the energy of an antineutrino June 18, 2018 antineutrinoMINERvAneutrinoresultFermilab feature Fermilab’s MINERvA experiment gives a boost to the particle physics field by sharpening a model of a frequent, pesky phenomenon.
Fermilab, United States contribute to major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider June 15, 2018 CERNHL-LHCLarge Hadron ColliderLHCSwitzerlandPress release A groundbreaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC. Fermilab is leading the U.S. contribution to the HL-LHC, in addition to building new components for the upgraded detector for the CMS experiment.
Fermilab develops forefront accelerator components for the High-Luminosity LHC June 14, 2018 acceleratoraccelerator R&DCERNHigh-Luminosity LHCHL-LHCmagnetSwitzerlandFermilab feature When complete, the HL-LHC will produce five to seven times more proton-proton collisions than the current LHC — thanks in part to important collider components contributed by Fermilab.
A boon for physicists: new insights into neutrino interactions June 8, 2018 CERNINFNIsraelItalyMicroBooNEneutrinoSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited KingdomFermilab feature Physicists on the MicroBooNE collaboration at Fermilab have presented their first collection of science results at the international Neutrino 2018 conference in Germany.
Intriguing news from MiniBooNE June 6, 2018 Los Alamos National LaboratoryMiniBooNENew Mexicosterile neutrinoSymmetry feature New research results have potentially identified a fourth type of neutrino: the sterile neutrino.
We're going to need a bigger blackboard June 6, 2018 CaliforniaLarge Hadron ColliderLHCSLACtheorySymmetry feature Watch SLAC theorist Lance Dixon write out a new formula that will contribute to a better understanding of certain particle collisions.