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Accelerators for America's Future
More than 400 people met in Washington, DC to discuss how future accelerators could provide better ways to slice silicon into chips, treat cancer, stop terrorist attacks, tap new sources of energy, reduce the world's growing burden of nuclear waste or turn air pollutants into fertilizer.
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60 Second Explanation
The Standard Model is the best theory that physicists currently have to describe the building blocks of the universe. It is one of the biggest achievements in twentieth-century science.
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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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Accelerator Applications: Shrink Wrap
If you buy a Butterball turkey this Thanksgiving, you have particle accelerators to thank for its freshness. For decades now the food industry has used particle accelerators to produce the sturdy, heat-shrinkable film that Butterballs come wrapped in.
Fermilab Today
- Nov. 6, 2009
Fermilab Today—November 4, 2009
NOvA gets full construction approvalNOvA experiment collaborators have more to celebrate this holiday season.
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Fermilab Today—October 30, 2009
Roll out the wavelength shifter barrelThe first batches of two powdered chemicals, dubbed wavelength shifters, for the future NOvA neutrino project arrived by the barrel at Fermilab recently.
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Fermilab Today—October 23, 2009
Hot computers, cool upgrades through Recovery Act fundsAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will allow Fermilab to replace 20-year-old cooling equipment in the Feynman Computing Center early next year with more efficient and reliable cooling units.
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Read more about Fermilab and the Recovery Act
symmetry
- October 2009
- Grad students follow the data
- Cleaner Living Through Electrons
- Day in the Life: LabFest
- Accelerator Applications: Shrink Wrap
- Logbook: Antiproton Discovery
- 60 Seconds: Intensity Frontie
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.
MicroBooNE receives CD-0
Fermilab has moved a step closer to constructing a new neutrino experiment. The Department of Energy has given Critical Decision-0 approval to a new booster neutrino experiment called MicroBooNE.
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.
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.
Muon Collider
A muon collider would allow for a new generation of experiments 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.
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.