Fermilab is cooking up a hot technology-and the serving is ultracold. The laboratory is stepping up efforts to develop and test superconducting radio-frequency cavities, a key technology for the next generation of particle accelerators and the future of particle physics.
When it comes to training, hiring, and retaining women and members of ethnic minorities, particle physics lags far behind other fields of science. Staffers at three national labs- Fermilab, SLAC, and Brookhaven-are attacking the problem at every level.
Fermilab has created a new Web site to provide citizens with clear and accurate information about how Fermilab is using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more to find out about the immediate benefits for our neighbors and our nation.
From the earliest days of high energy physics in the 1930s to the latest 21st-century initiatives, the bold and innovative ideas and technologies of particle physics have entered the mainstream of society to transform the way we live.
Fermilab Today—August 21, 2009
First Recovery Act Vehicle Arrives at Fermilab
This hybrid Ford Fusion is the first of 24 new alternative-fuel vehicles that will join the Fermilab fleet in the coming weeks, thanks to funds secured by the Department of Energy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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symmetry breaking—August 14, 2009
Recovery Act pushes high-field magnet development forward
"A collaboration of national laboratories, universities, and industry may soon begin testing a new material that could help to revolutionize the superconducting magnet field."
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Fermilab Press Release—August 5, 2009
Fermilab to Receive Additional $60.2 Million in Recovery Act Funding for High Energy Physics
In the latest installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will receive an additional $60.2 million to support research toward next generation particle accelerators and preliminary design for a future neutrino experiment.
Fermilab Today—July 31, 2009
Blasting continues at NOvA
Construction crews at the future site of the NOvA detector facility have blasted through two more sections of rock since the initial detonation last week.
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The U.S. has contributed $531 million to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, located in Europe. From the LHC Remote Operations Center at Fermilab, U.S. scientists will participate in the startup of the machine.
More than 900 scientists from the U.S. work on the CMS experiment at the LHC. Sifting through proton-proton collisions, scientists may find signs for dark matter particles, new subatomic forces and perhaps extra dimensions of space.
Angels & Demons Lecture Nights: The Science Revealed
With the release of the blockbuster film, Angels & Demons, scientific institutions worldwide have hosted public lectures about the real science behind the movie. To see videos or listen to mp3s of lectures or to see lecture slides, click here.
Scientists wonder why the universe is expanding ever faster. What mysterious force is at work? By recording the light from hundreds of millions of galaxies, they hope to find out what's going on.
An experiment that could help revamp the Intensity Frontier recently took a big step forward. ArgoNeuT recorded its first neutrino interactions, the first ever seen in a liquid-argon detector in the United States.
Data recorded by the Pierre Auger Observatory raises the possibility that the highest-energy cosmic rays - super-speedy cosmic bullets that hit Earth - could actually be iron nuclei.
Scientists of Fermilab's CDF and DZero collaborations observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks, a discovery significant in the Higgs boson search.
Scientists of Fermilab's DZero collaboration have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a single experiment.
Scientists of Fermilab's CDF experiment found evidence of an unexpected particle, Y(4140), with curious characteristics that may reveal new ways quarks can combine to form matter.
The Particle Physics Project Prioritzation Panel proposes a strategic plan for the next 10 years to address the central questions in particle physics using a range of tools and techniques at three interrelated frontiers.
Learn how Fermilab is paving the way for the next particle physics discovery.
At Fermilab’s Tevatron Collider, physicists have been telling the story of their research results in weekly installments for more than five years.