Putting the squeeze on axions
…dark matter of the universe. The experimental hunt for a dark matter candidate called the axion has been going on for decades, and today, a number of experiments are putting…
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…
A minute with Troy England
…up for quantum? The future of quantum is scaling. When you scale up, the number of resources you have to accomplish a goal all start falling. You have one thing…
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…
A chilling new search for dark matter will soon be underway
…which has since been upgraded to SNO+. Today, SNOLAB hosts a number of neutrino and astroparticle physics experiments, one of which is the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, or SuperCDMS….
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…