First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment
CERN and Fermilab announce big step in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of…
Engineering innovation meets history in groundbreaking neutrino experiment hosted by Fermilab
At the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, site of the former Homestake gold mine, technicians and engineers are employing a modern approach to moving massive steel beams…
How an experiment at Fermilab fixed a hole in the Standard Model
Twenty-five years ago, there was a hole in the Standard Model. And on July 21, 2000, an experiment called DONUT filled it. That’s when a team of 54 physicists from…
Fermilab, international partners break ground on new state-of-the-art particle accelerator
Editor’s note: Since it was published, this article has been updated with a more recent illustration of the PIP-II campus. With a ceremony held today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
ICEBERG tests future neutrino detector systems with ‘beautiful’ results
The international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, hosted by Fermilab, will be huge. In fact, with more than 1,000 collaborators from over 30 countries and five continents, it’s the…
Fermilab hosts successful Outdoor Family Fair
The mission of U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is to conduct experiments that push our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of matter. Part of that mission…
After mapping millions of galaxies, Dark Energy Survey finishes data collection
Join CERN, Fermilab and SURF live for a journey on DUNE and all things neutrinos
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is going live on June 15, to discuss all things neutrinos with our partners at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and the…
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 JGU’s 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….