A minute with Tim Hobbs, theoretical physicist
…I’m a staff physicist. I wear a number of different hats. I’m a theoretical physicist, and I do a lot of computation as well. The main bread and butter of…
What does the Standard Model predict for the magnetic moment of the muon?
…the muon’s magnetic moment. If we can both measure and predict this number to ultra-high precision, we can test whether the Standard Model of Elementary Particles is complete. Muons are…
Fermilab, international partners break ground on new beamline for the worldβs most advanced neutrino experiment
…States. At its peak, construction of LBNF is expected to create almost 2,000 jobs in Illinois and a similar number in South Dakota. The experiment will attract students and young…
The cold eyes of DUNE
…of the argon tanks. But when you’re measuring a limited number of electrons, even the slightest amount of electronics noise can mask the signal you’re looking for. The easiest way…
Contract awarded for the excavation of gigantic caverns for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
…our planning advances, we’ll have better information on the exact number of positions needed. “Thyssen Mining strongly believes in supporting the community. Our observation in the past is that by…
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…