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…
A team of international physicists join forces in hunt for sterile neutrinos
…particles to date. “The two experiments use multiple detectors with well-understood uncertainties and have collected an unprecedentedly large number of events. Requiring consistency between the data sets of the two…
LHC scientists detect most favored Higgs decay
…physicist at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory who works on the ATLAS experiment, finding the Higgs boson decaying into bottom quarks has been priority number one for the last several years…
Hundreds of hadrons
Hadrons count among their number the familiar protons and neutrons that make up our atoms, but they are much more than that….
Ultrapure copper for an ultrasensitive dark matter detector
…that it is unstable and spontaneously decays into other particles. The minuscule number of copper atoms converted into cobalt has no impact on everyday uses for copper. But Bauer and…
A joint statement from the the United States and India
…create the most intense high-energy neutrino beams which would help unravel understanding of the evolution of the universe. This contribution is described in number 10 of the White House statement….