From the Daily Herald, April 22, 2022: Fermilab’s PIP-II accelerator project has received full approval from the Department of Energy for construction, including a new superconducting radio-frequency linear particle accelerator that will help scientists in their quest to better understand our universe.
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A recipient of this year’s IEEE PAST Award, Romanenko was cited “for outstanding contributions to science and technology of radio frequency superconductivity for particle accelerators.”
From the Cornell Chronicle, September 20, 2021: A collaboration of researchers led by Cornell has been awarded $22.5 million by the NSF to continue research needed to transform the brightness of electron beams. Fermilab scientists Sergei Nagaitsev and Sam Posen are part of the collaboration team working with Cornell to improve the performance and reduce the cost of accelerator technologies that would improve beams for tumor treatment, imaging individual atoms, instruments for wafer metrology, and the Large Hadron Collider.
From Forbes, June 1, 2021: Fermilab’s Don Lincoln explains how researchers use observations of high energy particles to better understand rare astronomical phenomena such as black holes, supernovae, colliding stars, and other cosmic calamities.
On March 1, 2021, Fermilab employee Elias Lopez walks alongside a cryomodule for LCLS-II at the Cryomodule Test Facility.
Operating at 325 MHz, the single-spoke resonators, or SSRs, are key to the PIP-II cold linac’s performance. The PIP-II SSR technical team declared 3.25 to be Spoke Day.
In March 2021, Noah Curfman is assembling the solenoid, newly built by Bill Robotham’s group, for Laboratory Directed Research and Development: Improving magnetic materials for rapid-cycling synchotron cavity tuners.
In late February, the HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project achieved a major milestone: the completion of the project’s cryostat tooling installation. In cooperation with CERN and a Spanish vendor, and despite setbacks, a Fermilab team was able to complete this critical project in only two weeks.
Protecting particle accelerators and developing technology for addressing environmental issues, Arden Warner loves solving problems. He’s also chair of the Fermilab Summer Internships in Science and Technology committee, where he champions mentoring young scientists and working towards a more inclusive culture in science.
The U.S. Department of Energy has given the U.S. High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project approval to move full-speed-ahead in building and delivering components for the HL-LHC, specifically, cutting-edge magnets and accelerator cavities that will enable more rapid-fire collisions at the collider. The collider upgrades will allow physicists to study particles such as the Higgs boson in greater detail and reveal rare new physics phenomena. The U.S. collaborators on the project may now move into production mode.