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…
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…