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Plan for Discovery
What does the future hold for Fermilab? The laboratory's scientific strategy for the next two decades encompasses a suite of experiments and accelerator facilities that keep the laboratory, and the United States, at the forefront of particle physics research.
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Solving for X
A proposed new accelerator complex at Fermilab would open up the Intensity Frontier of particle physics.
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Higgs boson: How do you search for it?
Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the concept of how the search for the Higgs boson is accomplished. Several large experimental groups are hot on the trail of this elusive subatomic particle which is thought to explain the origins of particle mass.
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Fermilab's Plan for the Future
Fermilab's plan for the future outlines a diverse, world-leading research program that addresses the most important—and most challenging—questions related to research at the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers.
Fermilab Today
- Feb. 22, 2012
symmetry
- Feb 2012
- Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?
- The Tevatron's Proud Legacy
- Taking the Heat out of Nuclear Waste
- Accelerator Apps: Radioisotopes
- Logbook: W Mass Precision Measurement
The U.S. has contributed $531 million to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider and its particle detectors, located at CERN in Europe. From the LHC Remote Operations Center at Fermilab, U.S. scientists will monitor the collisions produced by 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.
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Test beam facility: 500+ customers and counting
The Fermilab Test Beam Facility is a proving ground for new particle detector designs being developed for new experiments at Fermilab and other accelerator laboratories in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Since its makeover in 2005, the facility has staged 38 experiments, with 528 collaborators from 119 institutions in 23 countries. It is the only U.S. facility where scientists can test their designs with a beam of high-energy protons and pions.
Frontiers of Discovery
At Fermilab, scientists work on particle physics science and technology that leads to a better understanding of the physics of the universe and practical benefits to society.
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.
Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment
The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment will explore the transformations of the world's highest-intensity neutrino beam to find out what role neutrinos played in the evolution of the universe.
Project X
Project X would allow for numerous experiments at the intensity frontier and would allow scientists to develop technologies for a future machine at the energy frontier.
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.
Beacons of Discovery
Beacons of Discovery outlines the unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery available to particle physics and the potential rewards of the world’s nations and regions working together to form a single scientific enterprise.