Target practice: Perfecting the Mu2e production target

…same hot temperature. This means that there are some diminishing returns in terms of fin structure and number and heat dissipation,” Pushka said. Mu2e Project Manager Ron Ray of Fermilab…

A boon for physicists: new insights into neutrino interactions

…of the multiplicity – or number of particles – that these neutrino-argon collisions generate. A new paper describing these results was submitted to the journal Physical Review D last week….

Data from antipodal places: First use of CMB polarization to detect gravitational lensing from galaxy clusters

…inflation, dark energy and the number and masses of neutrinos, and even test general relativity on large scales. Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and food writer, once called Antarctica “the…

International collaborators deliver first critical components for upcoming neutrino detector

…detector in the beam, will record the number of electron and muon neutrinos that pass through it before oscillation can occur. The vast majority of them — about 99.5 percent…