Construction Begins on One of the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiments

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation have approved funding and start of construction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, which will begin in the early 2020s to hunt for light dark matter particles....
7-May-2018 9:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

U.S., India Sign Agreement Providing for Neutrino Physics Collaboration at Fermilab and in India

Earlier today, April 16, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and India’s Atomic Energy Secretary Dr. Sekhar Basu signed an agreement in New Delhi to expand the two countries’ collaboration on world-leading science and technology projects....
16-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

ADMX Announces Breakthrough in Axion Dark Matter Detection Technology

This week, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) unveiled a new result, published in Physical Review Letters, that places it in a category of one: It is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to...
9-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab Delivers an Unprecedented Measurement

A group of scientists working on the MiniBooNE experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab has reported a breakthrough: They were able to identify exactly-known-energy muon neutrinos hitting the atoms at the heart of their particle detector....
6-Apr-2018 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment officially starts up

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, which has been six years in the making, is officially up and running after reaching its final construction milestone.
7-Feb-2018 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Sterile Neutrino Sleuths

The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab is further unraveling the mysteries of neutrinos with three vast detectors filled with ultrapure liquid argon.
5-Feb-2018 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Fermilab Delivers First Cryomodule for Ultrapowerful X-Ray Laser at SLAC

The first superconducting cryomodule built and tested at Fermilab for the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory was successfully delivered. A series of 37 of these cryomodules will power the three-mile-long X-ray...
19-Jan-2018 5:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

The Biggest Little Detectors

The international ProtoDUNE project is building two smaller-scale test detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. But even the smaller detectors in this case are enormous and complex.
19-Jan-2018 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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