Fermilab Today

Archive: November 2015

Fourth annual Physics Slam gets good rap
In Brief: A NALWO Thanksgiving
Photo of the Day: Great ball of fire
From Astronomy, Nov. 23, 2015: Earth might have hairy dark matter
From Wired, Nov. 24, 2015: Physicists are desperate to be wrong about the Higgs boson

Profile: One minute with Chris Olsen, senior particle accelerator operator
Wellness Feature of the Month: December fitness classes and complimentary wellness
Photo of the Day: Ring of lights
From Phys.org, Nov. 20, 2015: Supercomputing the strange difference between matter and antimatter
From Physics, Nov. 23, 2015: Connecting the Higgs mass with cosmic history

From symmetry: Physicists get a supercomputing boost
In Brief: The new Fermilab news: Say your piece
Photo of the Day: 23 skidoo
From Hyde Park Herald, Nov. 18, 2015: University of Chicago celebrates national labs

From symmetry: Shrinking the accelerator
From CMS: Lead bottom
Photo of the Day: The greater geese
From Scientific American, Nov. 18, 2015: Mysterious glow at Milky Way's center could be dark matter or hidden pulsars
From Scientific American, Nov. 17, 2015: Astronomers indirectly spot neutrinos released just 1 second after the birth of the universe

Special Announcement: Save the date: All-hands meeting, celebration - Dec. 18
Director's Corner: A new era for Fermilab international relations
In Brief: West parking lot closures, rerouting
In Brief: Submit timecard early this week
Photo of the Day: Business end of the Cockcroft-Walton
From Physics, Nov. 18, 2015: Synopsis: LHC data might reveal nature of neutrinos
From Space.com, Nov. 18, 2015: Einstein's unfinished dream: marrying relativity to the quantum world

PIP-II: Renewing Fermilab's accelerator complex
Photos of the Day: Symmetry in reflection
Death: In memoriam: Barbara K. Edmonson
From Physics, Nov. 9, 2015: Are we on the brink of the Higgs abyss?
From Physics World, Nov. 13, 2015: Astronomers gaze upon the oldest stars in the galaxy

From symmetry: Giving physics students options
In Brief: Veterans Day celebration
Photo of the Day: Fog hat
From the University of Kansas, Nov. 11, 2015: Dark matter research earns doctoral student a fellowship at Fermilab
From The Economist, November 2015: Envisaging the invisible
From Nature, Nov. 12, 2015: Largest-ever dark-matter experiment poised to test popular theory

From symmetry: The light side of dark matter
Frontier Science Result: DZero: Two for the price of one
Photo of the Day: A night's FAST
From Space.com, Nov. 6, 2015: Einstein's true biggest blunder (op-ed)
From Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 9, 2015: $3 million Breakthrough Prize: Why mutable neutrinos won the day

From symmetry: Physics Photowalk voting begins
Milestone: Employees receive degrees through Fermilab Tuition Assistance Program
In Brief: Veterans Day celebration - today at 11:30 a.m., Kuhn Barn
Photos of the Day: Everything gold can stay
ESH&Q weekly report, Nov. 10: Safety Update
From Nature, Nov. 9, 2015: Mega science prize split between 1,377 physicists

From symmetry: Neutrino experiments win big again
From CMS: Fermilab hosts 2015 US LUA meeting this week
Photo of the Day: Crab spider
From 60 Minutes, Nov. 8, 2015: Extra dimensions? Dark matter? A more powerful collider hunts for clues
From Space.com, Nov. 4, 2015: Einstein's biggest triumph: a century of general relativity (op-ed)

Profile: One minute with Hema Ramamoorthi, Directorate chief of staff
Video of the Day: Why I Love Neutrinos - Steve Brice
In Brief: Proton Accelerators for Science and Innovation workshop - Nov. 11-13
In Brief: PIP-II room name winner and next meeting room contest
Photo of the Day: Spectral lines of Wilson Hall
From Scientific American, Nov. 8, 2015: Neutrinos win again: 1,300 physicists share Breakthrough Prize for particle experiments
From Physics World, Nov. 5, 2015: Strong interaction between antiprotons is measured for the first time

Fermilab attains unprecedented quality factor for LCLS-II dressed cavity
Frontier Science Result: CMS: Bigger is better
Photos of the Day: By the dusk's early light
From NPR, Nov. 4, 2015: Physicists probe antimatter for clues to how it all began
From ars technica, Nov. 5, 2015: Finally some answers on dark energy, the mysterious master of the universe

From symmetry: The particle physics of you
Physics in a Nutshell: Getting to higher energies
Photos of the Day: Rusty hues
In Brief: Open enrollment finalized
From Brookhaven National Laboratory, Nov. 2, 2015: A neutrino in a haystack: Brookhaven's contributions to the MicroBooNE neutrino experiment
From Scientific Computing, Nov. 4, 2015: Tackling the Large Hadron Collider's big data challenge

In Brief: 2015 Fermilab Photowalk: winning images
In Brief: Workshop on Booster accelerator performance and enhancements - Nov. 23-24
From symmetry: Gravitational waves and where to find them
Photos of the Day: Two mornings
Safety Update: ESH&Q weekly report, Nov. 2
From Nautilus, Oct. 29, 2015: Will quantum mechanics swallow relativity?
From Nature, Nov. 3, 2015: Searching the invisible

In Brief: University of Chicago celebrates 125th anniversary with affiliated laboratories - Nov. 13
From the Universities Research Association: URA celebrates 50 years
Photo of the Day: Praying mantis of prey
From Motherboard, Oct. 30, 2015: A Large Hadron Collider upgrade will produce 15 million Higgs bosons per year

MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos
In Brief: Kautz Road closed - Nov. 4-5
Photo of the Day: Little turtles
From The Guardian, Oct. 29, 2015: China to start work on supercollider by 2020, staking claim as science leader
From New Scientist, Oct. 28, 2015: Exploding stars could be lit by hearts of dark matter