Prototype for DUNE detector will test new technology that can handle more neutrinos
Long before the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment takes its first measurements in an effort to expand our understanding of the universe, a prototype for one of the experiment’s detectors is…
Joint appointment at JGU and Fermilab: Alfons Weber is JGUβs new W3 Professor of Experimental Particle Physics
Professor Alfons Weber will supervise the design and construction of the so-called DUNE Near Detector complex, which will be located close to the source of the neutrino beams at Fermilab….
NIU students lend their engineering skills to PIP-II
PIP-II, the state-of-the-art linear accelerator project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, received some help this year from undergraduate engineering students at Northern Illinois University. Every…
New center will enhance engineering research at Fermilab
The Integrated Engineering Research Center at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is about to become the place to tackle the technical challenges of particle physics experiments….
DUNE Resources Review Board to meet in South Dakota for the first time
Fermilab Deputy Director Bonnie Fleming, chair of the DUNE Resources Review Board. Credit: Fermilab On March 30 and 31, representatives from science funding agencies around the world will meet in…
ICARUS neutrino detector installed in new Fermilab home
For four years, three laboratories on two continents have prepared the ICARUS particle detector to capture the interactions of mysterious particles called neutrinos at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi…
Chopping beam to your taste
For lunch, do you enjoy having your tomato whole, in slices or finely chopped? It probably depends on the dish: The tomato could serve as a standalone fruit snack, as…
Canadaβs Governor General Julie Payette commends new partnership between Fermilab and York University in support of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Her Excellency the Right Honorable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, visited the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today, touring the lab’s extensive research complex and celebrating…
Prep work for DUNE at Fermilab nears completion
As workers were completing excavation on the colossal caverns in South Dakota for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, crews 800 miles away at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National…
Pre-excavation work on LBNF/DUNE begins in South Dakota
An international project to build the largest physics experiment ever constructed in the United States took a major step forward as a new phase of work has begun at the…