Scientists work to shed light on Standard Model of particle physics
…this number, testing the g-factor through experiment is an effective way to test the theory,” said Simon Corrodi, a postdoctoral appointee in Argonne’s High Energy Physics Division. “There was a…
Jump into Computer Science Education Week
…host a number of activities to highlight The Department of Energy’s efforts, including increasing access to computer science education, building computational literacy, and growing the cyber workforce of the future….
The big questions: Josh Frieman on dark energy
…the nature of dark energy at the national laboratories and how the Office of Science’s High Energy Physics program has been at the vanguard of a number of cosmic surveys….
UK to play vital role in creating the worldβs most powerful neutrino beam
…the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Daresbury Laboratory, as well as supporting U.K. research at a number of international research facilities including CERN, Fermilab, the ESO telescopes in Chile and…
Q&A with Joel Butler on leading the CMS experiment
…with 3,000-plus members? The biggest problems were not conflicts, but rather communicating complicated ideas. The CMS experiment has a tremendous number of smart people with good arguments for what they…
Preparing for a more powerful particle accelerator
An international collaboration is upgrading the CMS detector at CERN to handle the increased number of collisions that the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will produce….
New metamaterials for studying the oldest light in the universe
…fabricate because of the huge number of cuts that needed to be made. Now with improved machines and automation at Fermilab, the process takes just four days per lens, and…
High-resolution MicroBooNE detector provides new details in neutrino-argon interaction measurement
…answers that remain mysteries: their absolute mass, the number of species and their role in the evolution of the universe. It is crucial to understand these characteristics since they could…
Fermilab contributes to award-winning Spack software tool
…450 contributors regularly adds features and improvements. Spack is now used for software deployment on six of the world’s top 10 supercomputers, and it has been adopted by a number…
Breakthrough MicroBooNE measurement elucidates neutrino interactions
…properties from a large number of interactions,” said Brookhaven Lab postdoc Wenqiang Gu, who led the physics analysis. To accomplish this, the team developed a new technique to extract the…