U.S. Department of Energy unveils blueprint for the quantum internet at βLaunch to the Future: Quantum Internetβ event
…Kearns. “We continue that tradition by tackling the challenges of establishing a national quantum internet, expanding our collaboration to tap into the vast power of American scientists and engineers around…
Fermilab gets ready to upgrade accelerator complex for more powerful particle beams
…neutrino beams generated from particle accelerators to large, stories-high detectors. The greater the number of neutrinos sent to the detectors, the greater the chances the detectors will catch them, and…
Department of Energy awards Fermilab $3.5 million for quantum science
…experience in conventional computing and networks, we can advance quantum science in directions that not many other places can.” As part of a number of grants to national laboratories and…
Scientists advance their vision for a muon collider
…the toughest technological challenges in colliding muons is condensing them to increase the number of collisions in the collider. Muons scatter after they are generated. Condensing the muons is like…
Large Hadron Collider upgrade project leaps forward
…number by a factor of 10. This increase in luminosity — the number of proton-proton interactions per second — means that significantly more data will be available to experiments at…
DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visits Fermilab to discuss quantum program
…Science Paul Dabbar visited Fermilab. The main focus of the visit was Fermilab’s rapidly advancing quantum science and technology program. Fermilab’s quantum program includes a number of leading-edge research initiatives…
Turning up the luminosity: Fermilab contributes important CMS upgrades
Fermilab is developing and testing a revolutionary particle detector concept, one that will enable the CMS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to handle 10 times the number of particle…
Neutrino 2020 kicks off June 22
…a.m. Central time on June 22 and run through July 2. The change has allowed triple the typical number of participants to sign up for the conference and resulted in…
Fermilabβs FAST/IOTA facility achieves major milestone in accelerator research
…way we design, build and operate particle accelerators.” In accelerator physics, intensity refers to the number of particles packed into a beam and accelerated through the machine. With protons now…
Robert Ainsworth awarded $2.5 million to improve particle beams for high-intensity experiments
…beams that feed their experiments. Intensity refers to the number of particles that are squeezed into a beam. The more intense the beam, the more opportunities to study subatomic phenomena,…