From Agencia FAPESP, Aug. 8, 2018: A longstanding partnership between the Brazilian scientific community and Fermilab is getting stronger, thanks in part to FAPESP’s research funding programs.
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From WBBM Newsradio: Aug. 6, 2018: Fermilab has preliminary approval for its plan to upgrade its particle accelerator, which uses streams of neutrinos for a wide variety of physics research, by the middle of the next decade.
From Patch, July 30, 2018: Batavia’s Fermilab has just been approved to move forward with an accelerator project that will create more powerful particle beams to “generate an unprecedented stream of neutrinos.”
From Kane County Chronicle, July 31, 2018: The PIP-II accelerator upgrades are integral to the Fermilab-hosted Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, also known as DUNE, which is the largest international science experiment ever conducted on U.S. soil.
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is advancing technology commonly used in dark matter experiments—and scaling it up to record-breaking sizes.
From the Las Cruces Sun News, July 21, 2018: NMSU’s Department of Physics contributes to the Fermilab MiniBooNE neutrino experiment.
From Dallas News, June 28, 2018: UT Arlington students and scientists work on the Fermilab-hosted Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
From BBC Radio 4, June 28, 2018: In this radio piece, reporter Adam Rutherford explores the ProtoDUNE prototype detector at CERN. Segment begins at 7:10.
From Agência FAPESP, July 19, 2018: Uma parceria duradoura entre a comunidade científica brasileira e o Fermilab está se tornando mais forte, graças aos programas da FAPESP de financiamento à pesquisa.
PIP-II, a particle accelerator project for generating intense neutrino beams, has achieved an important milestone.