Fermilab computing experts bolster NOvA evidence, 1 million cores consumed
…million computing cores, or CPUs, between May 14 and 15 and over a short timeframe one week later. This is the largest number of CPUs ever used concurrently over this…
Fermilab delivers first cryomodule for ultrapowerful X-ray laser at SLAC
…sources. They determined that the cause was inside the cryomodule and made a number of changes, including adjusting the path of the flow of liquid helium. The changes worked, substantially…
A minute with Sandra Nelson, manager β sponsored programs and corporate accounting
…the Australian Open in a heartbeat or the French Open, and I’ve been to the U.S. Open a number of times. What type of music do you love? I’d say…
Japanβs KAGRA searches the sky for gravitational waves
The newly operational KAGRA will bump the number of gravitational-wave observatories to four, which will allow scientists to better triangulate the source of ripples in space-time….
Pinning down the ampere with a supersensitive particle detector
…Physics Prize and the 2020 URA Early Career Award for his work on skipper CCDs. “In principle, you can reduce this to a number that is arbitrarily small. We have…
Ten times science proved the world is amazing in 2018
From Live Science, Dec. 25, 2018: Results from Fermilab’s MiniBooNE neutrino experiment makes Live Science’s top science stories of 2018, at number 4….
ADMX announces breakthrough in axion dark matter detection technology
…of time before we find them.” One theory suggests that the dark matter that holds galaxies together might be made up of a vast number of low-mass particles, which are…
DUNE and Georgian Technical University discuss future cooperation on worldwide neutrino experiment
…would become the newest in a growing number of institutions contributing to the detector of the next big neutrino experiment. This work is supported by the DOE Office of Science….
NOvA experiment sees strong evidence for antineutrino oscillation
…data set is a fraction of our goal, but the number of oscillation events we see is far greater than we would expect if antineutrinos didn’t oscillate from muon type…
ArgoNeuT sheds light on electron neutrino interactions
…about each particle produced when a neutrino interacts to infer the type and properties of the original neutrino. The kind and number of particles produced in a neutrino interaction also…