Fermilab launches new institute for quantum science

Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the launch of the Fermilab Quantum Institute, which will bring all of the lab’s quantum science projects under one umbrella. This new enterprise signals...
18-Nov-2019 3:50 PM EST Add to Favorites

Fermilab, international partners break ground on new beamline for the world’s most advanced neutrino experiment

With a ceremony held today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory joined with its international partners to break ground on a new beamline that will help scientists learn more about ghostly particles called...
15-Nov-2019 2:20 AM EST Add to Favorites

Target practice: Perfecting the Mu2e production target

Mu2e aims to solve a mystery that has puzzled experimentalists and theorists alike since the discovery of the muon in 1936: Scientists have never observed a muon transform into its lighter cousin, the electron, without also emitting other particles....
6-Nov-2019 4:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

Department of Energy Awards Fermilab Funding for Next-Generation Dark Matter Research

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it has awarded scientists at its Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory funding to boost research on dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up an astounding 85% of the matter in the universe.
6-Nov-2019 4:20 PM EST Add to Favorites

Tests start at CERN for large-scale prototype of new technology to detect neutrinos

Scientists working at CERN have started tests of a new neutrino detector prototype, using a very promising technology called “dual phase.” If successful, this new technology will be used at a much larger scale for the international Deep...
6-Nov-2019 4:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

Fermilab Scientist Xingchen Xu Receives Prestigious DOE Award to Develop Superconductors

Fermilab scientist Xingchen Xu has received the prestigious $2.5 million Department of Energy Early Career Research Award to fund his five-year mission: advancing two technologies that will improve the performance niobium-tin superconductor by 50%...
6-Nov-2019 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Fermilab achieves world-record field strength for accelerator magnet

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab have announced that they achieved the highest magnetic field strength ever recorded for an accelerator steering magnet, setting a world record of 14.1 teslas, with the magnet cooled to 4.5 kelvins...
9-Sep-2019 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Mainz University, Fermilab agree to joint appointment in support of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Fermilab and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany have signed an agreement for a joint appointment to work on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
6-Sep-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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