Next-generation camera for the South Pole Telescope takes data on early universe
…to build a new, ultrasensitive camera for the telescope, containing 16,000 specially manufactured detectors. “Built with cutting-edge detector technology, this new camera will significantly advance the search for the signature…
LHC scientists detect most favored Higgs decay
…physicist at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory who works on the ATLAS experiment, finding the Higgs boson decaying into bottom quarks has been priority number one for the last several years…
Community and software applications on display at Fermilab quantum science workshop
…the average laptop’s 40 billion bits. But even a small number of qubits gives quantum computers extraordinary potential, because each added qubit doubles the computer’s memory and processing power. Yet…
Fermilab researchers receive DOE funding to advance emerging technologies for future industries
…including dark matter searches. But the result could have wide-ranging impact on diverse fields of science including the search for far away planets, environmental monitoring and climate change applications, and…
SpinQuest: Putting together the proton spin puzzle
…in a search for dark sector particles. This separate experiment could revolutionize our understanding of fundamental structures and interactions in the universe. Specifically, scientists will look for two dark sector…
DUNE and Georgian Technical University discuss future cooperation on worldwide neutrino experiment
As spokespersons for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, we were privileged to meet in October with a delegation in the country of Georgia to discuss a possible agreement between…
Mary Bishai joins Sergio Bertolucci as co-spokesperson of DUNE
…of Bologna in Italy, who became co-spokesperson in 2022. DUNE, hosted by DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is an international effort aimed at addressing some of the biggest open questions…
A window of opportunity: Physicists test titanium target windows for particle beam
In the late 2020s, Fermilab will begin sending the world’s most intense beam of neutrinos through Earth’s crust to detectors in South Dakota for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment,…
Contract awarded for acquisition of large cryogenic system for DUNE detectors in South Dakota
The cryogenic plant, to be installed a mile underground, will provide the cooling for two large liquid-argon neutrino detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment….
Fermilab and collaborators lead work on quantum gravity tests
…nominally would require a quantum system of arbitrarily large number of particles known as fermions, which would be equivalent to an arbitrarily large number of qubits in an experiment. As…