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…
Fighting COVID with computing: Fermilab, Brookhaven, Open Science Grid dedicate computational power to COVID-19 research
…COVID-19 projects. That number quickly grew to more than a million core-hours. As part of the unified response, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab spurred themselves into…
Quantum and accelerator science enable mysterious dark sector searches at Fermilab
…kept filled, a cavity can contain around 10 septillion photons — a 1 followed by 25 zeroes. That’s about the number grains of sand in all the deserts and beaches…
Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon
…on properties of the muon described by a number called the g-factor. Theoretical physicists calculate the g-factor based on the current knowledge of how the universe works at a fundamental…
If Betelgeuse goes boom: How DUNE would respond to a nearby supernova
…left by neutrinos beamed from Fermilab as well as those arriving from space. Since a supernova emits neutrinos evenly in all directions, the number of neutrinos that DUNE could detect…
Department of Energy awards Fermilab more than $10 million for quantum science
The Department of Energy’s QuantISED grants will support a number of initiatives by Fermilab scientists and their collaborators focusing on quantum computing, sensors and communication. Photo: Reidar Hahn The U.S….