Fermilabβs FAST/IOTA facility achieves major milestone in accelerator research
…way we design, build and operate particle accelerators.” In accelerator physics, intensity refers to the number of particles packed into a beam and accelerated through the machine. With protons now…
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…
Mu2e reaches major milestone with tracker move
…every grain of sand on Earth’s beaches, which is kind of an incomprehensible number of muons.” Brendan Kiburg, Mu2e tracker project manager “One of the keys to intensity frontier experiments…
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…
Fermilab plants rare orchids to support population of endangered species
…the first batch of valuable seeds and will continue to supply seeds for another four years, increasing the number of flowers on the grounds and the number of sites where…
Northern Illinois flourishes as accelerator R&D hub under Fermilab leadership
…PIP-II Injector Test Facility, a proving ground for the future heart of the lab’s accelerator complex, its PIP-II accelerator. A number of these studies are being conducted as part of…
Fermilabβs newest accelerator delivers first results
…As part of the only dedicated ring-based accelerator R&D facility for high-intensity beam physics in the United States, IOTA is designed to develop technologies to increase the number of particles…
Patty McBride is next CMS deputy co-spokesperson
…Mellon, she received her doctorate at Yale University and a postdoc at Harvard University. She started at Fermilab in 1994 and worked on a number of experiments and in various…