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Fermilab Today—November 13, 2009

Wire contracts placed for high-field magnet project

Fermilab has placed contracts for the first orders of a superconducting wire scientists hope to use in the next generation of high-performance magnets.
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Fermilab Today—November 4, 2009

NOvA gets full construction approval

NOvA experiment collaborators have more to celebrate this holiday season.
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Fermilab Today—October 30, 2009

Roll out the wavelength shifter barrel

The 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 funds

American 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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Fermilab Today—October 16, 2009

Fermilab cryomodule move advances SRF progress

The latest and largest portion of Fermilab's superconducting radio frequency test accelerator floated into place Tuesday, as smoothly as a ship making port.
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Fermilab Today—October 9, 2009

Recovery Act funds new space to house computers

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is funding a $9.25 million expansion to the Fermilab computing infrastructure that keeps e-mail, Web servers and scientific computers running.
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Fermilab Today—October 2, 2009

Crews pour first concrete at NOvA site

The future home of the NOvA neutrino detector facility is beginning to take shape in northern Minnesota. Construction workers began Tuesday pouring the concrete foundation at the site near Ash River, Minn.
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Fermilab Today—September 25, 2009

NOvA uses Recovery Act funds to prepare Fermilab

While NOvA project collaborators carve a space for a future detector facility in Minnesota, they are preparing Fermilab's accelerator complex for the new neutrino experiment.
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Fermilab Today—September 18, 2009

Recovery Act funds high-availability computing center

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is funding a $4.5 million project to build a high-availability computing center and to improve electric infrastructure at the Feynman Computing Center.
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Fermilab Today—September 11, 2009

It starts with a hole

Recent photos from Ash River, Minn., illustrate progress at the future site of the NOvA detector facility, a construction project funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Fermilab Today—September 4, 2009

ARRA funds SRF technology, U.S. industry to benefit

In August, the Department of Energy announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide Fermilab with $52.7 million to test and develop superconducting radio frequency cavities, a key technology for next-generation accelerators and the future of particle physics.
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Fermilab Today—August 28, 2009

ARRA funds R&D for long-baseline neutrino research

The Department of Energy has provided Fermilab with $9 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the a future neutrino experiment at different stages of its approval and design.
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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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