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…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument starts 5-year survey
…includes new optics that increase the field of view of the telescope and includes 5,000 robotically controlled optical fibers to gather spectroscopic data from an equal number of objects in…
Finding the missing pieces in the puzzle of an antineutrino’s energy
…other neutrons out of nuclei they collide with. This chain reaction changes both the original neutrons’ energies and the number of neutrons detected. This result focuses on signs of neutrons…
Muon g-2 begins second run
…container in terms of understanding this magnetic field.” The team also had to boost the experiment’s muon flux, the number of muons per second required to reach the necessary statistical…
DUNE collaboration tests new technology for second detector module
…fibers. In addition, the argon within the vertical drift detector will be doped with xenon to enhance the number of photons that get detected when particles interact with atoms in…
Scientists recall the discovery of the top quark 30 years ago at Fermilab
…of top quark events!’ But we needed a significant number of top quark candidate events and careful estimates of background to be able to claim a discovery. With continued intense…