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Superconducting Technology, Chicago Style
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.
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Growing a diverse workforce
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.
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Recovery Act funding fuels Fermilab projects
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.
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The Benefits of Particle Physics
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
- Tune IT Up Q&A: Password
- Recovery Act Feature: First Recovery Act vehicle arrives at Fermilab
- Recreation Feature of the Month: Classes, events and discounts for September
- Recovery Act funds speed up high-speed ethernet
- From Daily Herald, August 20, 2009: Warrenville man paralyzed in ski accident adapting to new world
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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symmetry
- August 2009
- Superconducting Technology, Chicago Style
- Not a Moment to Lose at the LHC
- Dancing With Physicists
- Gallery: Takuya Uruno
- Accelerator Applications: Heart Valves
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.
Building a Dark Energy Camera
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.
ArgoNeuT experiment sees first neutrino interactions
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.
Cosmic rays could be iron nuclei
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.
Discovery of rare single top quarks
Scientists of Fermilab's CDF and DZero collaborations observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks, a discovery significant in the Higgs boson search.
DZero scientists refine W mass measurement
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.
Particle oddball surprises CDF physicists
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.
P5 report
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.
Physics at Fermilab
Learn how Fermilab is paving the way for the next particle physics discovery.
Result of the Week
At Fermilab’s Tevatron Collider, physicists have been telling the story of their research results in weekly installments for more than five years.