A black-and-white image of the pale sun in mid January.
FAST
Mist dissipating from an early-morning liquid nitrogen (LN2) delivery to the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility.
Every morning (and throughout the day), the New Muon Lab hosts a flock of barn & cliff swallows who land along the recessed ledge around the perimeter of the building. In addition to being very social, they are unmatched pilots with incredible flying skills & agility.
High-intensity particle beams enable researchers to probe rare physics phenomena. A proposed technique called optical stochastic cooling could achieve brighter beams 10,000 times faster than current technology allows. A proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate OSC has begun at Fermilab’s Integrable Optics Test Accelerator.
IOTA, the new test accelerator, gives researchers rich and varied opportunities to dive deep into the physics of particle beams.
Fermilab machinists and welders get a tour of the FAST/IOTA accelerator to see the results of all their hard work.
Our achievement at FAST is a testament to the strength of the laboratory’s SRF accelerator program and long-awaited proof of the feasibility of the SRF technology at its frontier.
The new Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology facility at Fermilab looks to the future of accelerator science.
The delivery of 50-MeV beam is the first step in establishing an accelerator R&D facility that will serve as one of America’s leading test beds for cutting-edge, record-high-intensity particle beam research.
