DUNE publishes first physics results from prototype detector
…there is a limit. The number of inactive channels in ProtoDUNE is less than 1%, giving us highly efficient event reconstruction. ProtoDUNE-SP shows that we can reach and exceed our…
Gotta catch βem all: new NOvA results with neutrinos and antineutrinos
…may be detected as a different type. The probability of these transitions depends on a number of factors: the energy of the neutrino, the distance between the particle beam source…
CDF collaboration at Fermilab announces most precise ever measurement of W boson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model
…and theoretical inputs in the context of the Standard Model. “The number of improvements and extra checking that went into our result is enormous,” said Ashutosh V. Kotwal of Duke…
Fermilab Booster delivers record-intensity beams for neutrino and muon experiments
…already delivered 1 billion trillion protons, smashing previous yearly proton delivery records. Impressively, the lab’s accelerator team has also doubled the beam intensity — the number of particles packed into…
New measurement of cosmic distances in the Dark Energy Survey gives clues about the nature of dark energy
…campaigns specifically designed to detect this signal. Signal from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. When plotting the number of galaxy pairs as a function…
Fermilab and collaborators lead work on quantum gravity tests
…nominally would require a quantum system of arbitrarily large number of particles known as fermions, which would be equivalent to an arbitrarily large number of qubits in an experiment. As…
New laser technology shows success in particle accelerators
…called a laser notcher, which takes advantage of the laser’s famously precise targeting abilities to do something unexpected: boost the number of particles that accelerators send to experiments. It’s cranked…
ArgoNeuT hits a home run with measurements of neutrinos in liquid argon
…to collect a reasonable number of interactions to investigate. Studying how particles interact with different targets in a statistical way can unveil nature’s secrets. The ArgoNeuT detector at Fermilab used…
The power of attraction: magnets in particle accelerators
…It usually takes months to construct each one. Regardless of the materials used to make them, accelerator magnets can be classified according to their number of poles. Most come in…
A million pulses per second: How particle accelerators are powering X-ray lasers
…how different systems evolve,” said SLAC scientist Mike Dunne, director of LCLS. “That’s proven to be quite remarkable, but it also has a number of limitations. That’s where LCLS-II comes…