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…
Brazilian researchers discover new way to purify liquid argon for neutrino experiments
…filter by specifying the saturation time and number of cycles needed to reach the required purity.” Fermilab engineer Sergey Koshelev works on equipment that regenerates the filters used for purifying…
Uniting with local community: Fermilab Fire Department ready to respond to area COVID-19 cases
…are few in number. We hope for the health of our friends and neighbors that there will be no cases to respond to. But we have to be prepared,” Kuhn…
Fermilab is partner in Quantum Science Center based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
…of the first steps in its development is identifying the quantum materials that can be used to make it. To that end, QSC collaborators are exploring a number of exotic…
Will these consortia lead the United States to global quantum supremacy?
…meeting place for collaboration and community creation for national laboratories Argonne and Fermilab, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, and a number of…
Solving the mystery of one, then two, dead magnets at Fermilab
The Magnet Detectives investigates the story of the assembly of the US-built magnets for the high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider. By doubling the number of protons inside the…