Scientific Linux: Created for physics, now used in medicine
Did you know that imaging scanners at the hospital next door could be running the same operating system as Fermilab’s particle accelerators and experiments?
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Taking down a giant: 699 tons of SLAC’s accelerator removed for upgrade
From SLAC, Jan. 31, 2017: A full kilometer of SLAC’s historic linac has been stripped of all its equipment. Over the next two years it will be re-equipped with new technology to power an X-ray laser, LCLS-II. Fermilab and Jefferson Lab are building the cryomodules for its superconducting portion.
Hacking for humanity
THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.
Fermilab “deepens” its relationship with Sanford Underground Research Facility
- collaboration
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
- South Dakota
The U.S. Department of Energy supports a suite of cutting-edge science experiments at Sanford Lab. Fermilab has assumed a new role at the South Dakota facility.
Japanese influence a steady source of innovation at Fermilab
The influence and impact of physicists from Japan on Fermilab research started in the 1970s and is still strong today.
Construction of world’s most sensitive dark matter detector moves forward
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles, known as weakly interacting massive particles, in 2020.
NIU joins DUNE project
From Northern Star, Sept. 15, 2016: Dan Boyden, third year physics graduate at Northern Illinois University, is hoping to be sent to Switzerland to work hands-on for DUNE, an international particle experiment including more than 140 labs and universities across 27 countries.
3-D galaxy-mapping project enters construction phase
From Berkeley Lab, Aug. 9, 2016: DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, will measure light from 35 million galaxies to provide new clues about dark energy. Fermilab is a collaborator on the Berkeley Lab project.
The ICHEP race condition
What’s it like to be part of an experiment collaboration in the weeks and days before a big announcement?
Why India matters
From APS News, July 2016: Indian scientists have made significant contributions to the Fermilab program, so it is natural that India is already taking a very active role in the development of a world-leading neutrino physics research program in the U.S. Fermilab scientist Vladimir Shiltsev co-wrote this article.