From CERN Courier, July 23, 2020: Fermilab scientists Steve Brice and Sam Zeller and University of Minnesota scientist Marvin Marshak authored this article on the Neutrino 2020 conference, in which 4,350 people from every continent, including Antarctica, participated. The online program, hosted by Fermilab and the University of Minnesota comprised eight half-days over two weeks, four poster sessions with both web-based and virtual-reality displays, and the use of the Slack platform for speaker questions and ongoing discussions.
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Nothing beats a small experiment for the breadth of experience it gives the scientist.
Scientists are using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques to analyze physics data.
Fermilab’s summer interns exchange lazy days for lab experience.
NOvA scientists have seen evidence that one of the three neutrino mass states might not include equal parts of muon and tau flavor, as previously thought. Scientists refer to this as “nonmaximal mixing,” and NOvA’s result is the first hint that this may be the case for the third mass state.
After more than a decade of running, on June 29, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search experiment and its second iteration, MINOS+, concluded their runs.
Throwback to last fall and to a location, while not on the Fermilab site, still very much connected with it: Soudan, Minnesota, home of the MINOS far detector. In the midst of this bucolic scene is a road sign declaring the stretch a “congested area.” During the entire week he was there, William Badgett saw not a single soul on this street.