New accelerator project completes successful transatlantic transportation test
…traveled via trailer to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Two days later, it was loaded onto a cargo plane and departed for Luxembourg; Luxembourg Airport is headquarters and hub for a…
US-built carbon support tube arrives at CERN for the CMS experiment upgrade
…simultaneously. To get enough data to properly study these extraordinary events, scientists need more collisions than the LHC can currently produce. The high-luminosity LHC will double the number of protons…
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Fermilab joins Microsoft Quantum Research Center as initial partner Executive.gov, September 23, 2026 September 24, 2026 Fermilab is joining Microsoft Quantum as an initial partner in a new quantum hardware…
New electronically tunable quantum detector speeds up search for dark matter
…Laboratory, University of Chicago, Stanford University and New York University used a state-of-the-art detector to speed up the search for one theorized dark matter particle — the dark photon —…
Quantum and accelerator science enable mysterious dark sector searches at Fermilab
…6 millikelvins, winnowing the number to less than one on average and providing the opportunity to search for a more elusive version of the dark photon. “If you want to…
Sensitive qubit-based technique to accelerate search for dark matter
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago have demonstrated a new technique based on quantum technology that will advance the search for…
A chilling new search for dark matter will soon be underway
…which has since been upgraded to SNO+. Today, SNOLAB hosts a number of neutrino and astroparticle physics experiments, one of which is the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, or SuperCDMS….
Nearly 1,600 meters below the surface of South Dakota, workers removed 800,000 tons of rock and built two giant caverns without a single serious accident β inside them, scientists will install the worldβs largest underground cryogenic detector
A quantum leap in particle simulation
…to an algorithm that reflects how that process evolves. More complex processes need a greater number of qubits. As the number grows, so does the computing power needed to carry…
New computing algorithms expand the boundaries of a quantum future
…a superposition of four possible states,” Shyamsundar said. The number of accessible states grows exponentially with the number of qubits used. Seems powerful, right? It’s a huge advantage when approaching…