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…
Next-generation camera for the South Pole Telescope takes data on early universe
…information on a number of physical processes and even new particles. “The cosmic microwave background is a remarkably rich source for science,” Benson said. “The third-generation camera survey can give…
Cosmic-muon detector technology earns R&D 100 Award for Fermilab and its partners
…this small scale require good software development to properly organize the large number of channels, data types and associated geometry,” he explained. Fermilab’s cosmic-muon detector work is an outgrowth of…
Big boost for Fermilabβs short-baseline neutrino experiments
…number of years ago. Scientists proposed to build a comprehensive set of neutrino detectors in Fermilab’s Booster neutrino beam, which also provided the neutrinos for MiniBooNE. The detectors would measure…
Europeans decide on particle strategy
From Physics, July 2, 2020: Fermilab scientist Marcela Carena is quoted in this overview of the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update. The update outlines a number of current and…
Ultracool engineering: Worldwide experts gather at Fermilab for first international workshop on cryogenic electronics for quantum systems
…electronics can deliver the fast, self-correcting feedback required to control the qubit state — on the order of ten-billionths of a second. When you have the number of wires and…
Customizable quantum control toolkit developed at Fermilab ready for commercial production
…and match their radio and lower frequency circuit boards, and their inputs and outputs. They can choose the number and type of additional daughter boards to buy and add them…
A glimpse into the future: accelerated computing for accelerated particles
…we can pipeline a large number of these things. In general, these techniques are pretty good.” One of the techniques behind inference acceleration is to combine traditional with specialized processors,…
2021: a year physicists asked, What lies beyond the Standard Model?
…ran a number of experiments that probed the Standard Model. From Higgs Boson, to Muon g-2 and the restart of the LHC at CERN, McGowan highlights some of the ways…
Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission
…Kron said. “The number of publications and people involved are a true testament to this experiment. Helping to launch so many careers has always been part of the plan, and…