With the Large Hadron Collider up and running, expectations are high: Shouldn't discoveries start pouring in? These things don't happen overnight. We trace the long, careful path from intriguing data to official discovery.
Data recorded by the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment shows two events that have characteristics consistent with the particles that physicists believe make up dark matter. However, these events may be consistent with background particles.
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.
It protects wires and cables in airplanes, alarm clocks, computers, your car and your home. Heat-shrink tubing is just about everywhere.
Fermilab Today—April 30, 2010
Blasting at NOvA completeCrews finished blasting granite to clear an area measuring about 50 by 70 by 350 feet for the detector facility. On Tuesday, they will pour the first concrete in the cleared area.
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Fermilab Today—March 19, 2010
ARRA funds construction for industrial buildingUsing funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fermilab awarded the $2.7 million construction contract to A.J. Maggio Co., a firm based in Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
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Fermilab Today—March 12, 2010
Wilson Hall to receive new emergency generatorAfter close to 60 years in service, the emergency backup generators in Wilson Hall will retire this spring.
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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 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.
Status of research at Fermilab, January 2010.
Data recorded by the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment shows two events that have characteristics consistent with the particles that physicists believe make up dark matter. However, these events may be consistent with background particles.
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.
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.
Scientists of Fermilab's CDF and DZero collaborations observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks, a discovery significant in the Higgs boson search.
At Fermilab�s Tevatron Collider, physicists have been telling the story of their research results in weekly installments for more than five years.
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 would allow for numerous experiments at the intensity frontier and would allow scientists to develop technologies for a future machine at the energy frontier.
A muon collider would allow for a new generation of experiments at the energy frontier.
Learn how Fermilab is paving the way for the next particle physics discovery.
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.
