Large Hadron Collider upgrade project leaps forward
…number by a factor of 10. This increase in luminosity — the number of proton-proton interactions per second — means that significantly more data will be available to experiments at…
Waiting for neutrinos
…particle accelerators. But they haven’t been able to study them in supernovae, where the number of neutrinos produced is simply off the charts compared to other sources. “This is the…
MINERvA successfully completes its physics run
…A number of neutrino experiments investigate this mystery, including Fermilab’s NOvA experiment and the upcoming international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab. To be as successful as possible, these…
DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visits Fermilab to discuss quantum program
…Science Paul Dabbar visited Fermilab. The main focus of the visit was Fermilab’s rapidly advancing quantum science and technology program. Fermilab’s quantum program includes a number of leading-edge research initiatives…
Turning up the luminosity: Fermilab contributes important CMS upgrades
Fermilab is developing and testing a revolutionary particle detector concept, one that will enable the CMS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to handle 10 times the number of particle…
Neutrino 2020 kicks off June 22
…a.m. Central time on June 22 and run through July 2. The change has allowed triple the typical number of participants to sign up for the conference and resulted in…
Searching for stealthy supersymmetry
…does not result in an obvious signature of large energy imbalance. Instead, the LPC team is looking for collisions that result in an unusually large number of particles in the…
First results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics
…the internal magnet determines the rate that the muon precesses in an external magnetic field and is described by a number that physicists call the g-factor. This number can be…
Robert Ainsworth awarded $2.5 million to improve particle beams for high-intensity experiments
…beams that feed their experiments. Intensity refers to the number of particles that are squeezed into a beam. The more intense the beam, the more opportunities to study subatomic phenomena,…
Physicists publish worldwide consensus of muon magnetic moment calculation
…in terms of the dimensionless Landé factor, called g. While a number of international groups have worked separately on the calculation, this publication marks the first time the global theoretical…