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…
Mobilizing Brazilian scientists for DUNE
…a significant number of people and enough resources to give a big step forward and be more proactive in the experiment where we participate. We have work to do. We…
Astronomers make huge data set containing 700 million objects available to the public
…astronomical objects. Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln explains how collaborators on the Dark Energy Survey study the history of the universe and highlights a number of the scientific findings in DES’s…
Coffea speeds up particle physics data analysis
…get a single number out of a computation — which often happens in high-energy physics — that’s going to hamper my efficiency as a scientist.” Frustrated by the tedious manual…
ANNIE poised to take data on neutrino-nucleus interactions
…a neutron, which interacts in the water target and produces detectable gamma rays. Physicists developed and deployed two innovative technologies on ANNIE to address these major uncertainties, count the number…
Three sky surveys completed in preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
…(Berkeley Lab), which is the lead institution in the DESI collaboration. “These three imaging surveys totaled 980 nights, which is a pretty big number.” The three imaging surveys for DESI…