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Video: Accelerator Technology Breakthrough
More than 30,000 particle accelerators are in use around the world. They treat cancer, create better shrink wrap, spot suspicious cargo and help make discoveries. A breakthrough at Fermilab will help build more efficient accelerators in the future.
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Beacons of Discovery: The Worldwide Science of Particle Physics
To discover what our world is made of and how it works at the most fundamental level is the challenge of particle physics. The tools of particle physics—experiments at particle accelerators and underground laboratories...
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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.
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Explain It in 60 Seconds: The Muon
The muon is the sponge cake of elementary particles. It's plump, basic, easy to mass-produce and disappears quickly-much like a Twinkie. Scientists look to the muon as a promising particle for the next batch of discoveries.
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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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Fermilab researchers receive prestigious DOE awards
Three Fermilab researchers will receive the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award, a prestigious award given to the most promising researchers in the early stages of their careers. They were among the 68 award recipients from a pool of about 850 applicants.
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.