DOE funds new physics research in dark matter
…85% of the matter in the universe. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment is one of the fund’s recipients, and a number of Washington University scientists are collaborating on the project….
Fermilab receives DOE funding to develop machine learning for particle accelerators
…considering the number of systems required to run an accelerator. Improvements in energy conservation make for greener accelerator operation, he said, and machine learning is how the lab will get…
Straws, crystals and the quest for new subatomic physics
…number of particles. The experiment will create a beam of 10 billion muons per second that travel toward an aluminum target. Aluminum nuclei will capture the muons, pulling them into…
New measurements point to silicon as a major contributor to performance limitations in superconducting quantum processors
…silicon to less than a millisecond with it. “The silicon dissipation we measured was an order of magnitude worse than the number widely reported in the [quantum information science] field,”…
Innovative ANNIE sees first neutrinos, with more βfirstsβ to come
…down and are captured on the gadolinium in the water tank over a much longer time period than the initial interaction (about 80 microseconds), allowing ANNIE to count the number…
Beams off, hardhats on
…collected twice the amount of total data gathered over four years at Brookhaven. “We have a plan in place to double the muon flux this summer with a number of…
One minute with Saskia Charity, Muon g-2 postdoc
…you are trying to find a hint of something new by measuring loads of different things, we are trying to measure just one number really accurately and test it against…
From particle physics to hospitals: The U.S. FDA authorizes the Mechanical Ventilator Milano within the scope of the emergency use authorization for COVID-19 ventilators
…relevant scientific communities. Its mechanical design is simple, using a small number of parts to facilitate rapid production. Fermilab scientists volunteered their time to design, test and finalize the MVM….
Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed
From CERN, Jan. 20, 2023: CERN is celebrating the completion of civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. This will improve its performance by increasing the number of particle…
Diversifying the dark matter portfolio
From APS News, July 2018: Scientists are looking down a number of avenues for dark matter. Fermilab’s Daniel Bowring and Dan Hooper discuss the search, and members of SuperCDMS, ADMX…