accelerator complex Archives

Cool journey to the center of the Earth: Researchers build superconducting cryomodule prototype

Phys.org, October 28, 2024

A team at Fermilab have built a prototype of a superconducting cryomodule for the Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project. The cryomodules will comprise the last section of the new linear accelerator, or linac, that will drive Fermilab’s new accelerator complex.

One minute with Roshanda Spillers, accelerator electronics technician

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Roshanda Spillers is a lifelong student. With five academic degrees under her belt and more to come, she’s one of the vital lab staff who make sure that the experiments’ electronics are in working order and that the particle accelerators are well-maintained. A new grandmother who’s learning piano while going to school, she encourages those who love science to pursue their dreams relentlessly.

Engineers and scientists at Fermilab are designing machine learning programs for the lab’s accelerator complex. These algorithms will enable the laboratory to save energy, give accelerator operators better guidance on maintenance and system performance, and better inform the research timelines of scientists who use the accelerators. The pilot system will used on the Main Injector and Recycler, pictured here. It will eventually be extended to the entire accelerator chain. Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab

Fermilab receives DOE funding to develop machine learning for particle accelerators

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Fermilab scientists and engineers are developing a machine learning platform to help run Fermilab’s accelerator complex alongside a fast-response machine learning application for accelerating particle beams. The programs will work in tandem to boost efficiency and energy conservation in Fermilab accelerators.

Firing on all cylinders

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It’s always great when every one of Fermilab’s nine particle accelerators are turned on and provide beam. With the lab again firing on all accelerator-cylinders, we thought it would be a good time to provide a rundown of each of the members of Fermilab’s accelerator complex. Get to know Fermilab’s suite of accelerators and storage rings.

Modern modulators for Fermilab accelerators

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New, flexible power modulators give accelerator operators more precise control over particle beams.

Life as an accelerator operator

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Behind some of the world’s biggest scientific instruments are teams with a set of skills you can’t find anywhere else.

Complex complexes

These two-minute animations break down the accelerator systems at Fermilab and CERN.

Una animación del complejo de aceleradores de partículas del Fermilab

From Tecnomania, March 21, 2018: Esta animación muestra sobre unas bonitas imágenes aéreas el funcionamiento de los aceleradores de partículas del Fermilab –nombre coloquial del Laboratorio Nacional Fermi– que se construyó en 1967 en Illinois (Estados Unidos) hace ya la friolera de más de 50 años. Actualmente lo están «actualizando» y ampliando para llevar a cabo nuevos experimentos.

Fermilab achieves milestone beam power for neutrino experiments

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Years of work upgrading the accelerator have made it possible to achieve the high beam power needed to produce neutrinos — the most elusive of nature’s known particles — by the truckload.

MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos

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The MicroBooNE collaboration announced that it has seen its first neutrinos in the experiment’s newly built detector.