Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, commonly known as Fermilab, is a premier U.S. government-funded laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Located near Batavia, Illinois, and established in 1967, Fermilab is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s network of national laboratories. The facility’s main focus is on the study of the fundamental particles and forces that govern the universe. Fermilab’s major achievements include the discovery of the top quark in 1995 and significant contributions to the studies of neutrinos and dark matter. The laboratory features a range of particle accelerators, including the former Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator until the completion of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Today, Fermilab conducts numerous experiments in collaboration with scientists from around the globe, seeking to provide deeper insights into the building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe.
Researchers have recently utilized skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) on the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope to capture the first astronomical spectrum using this technology. Recent…
Completion of massive underground caverns for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) paves the way for groundbreaking neutrino research, involving an international team of over…
Findings at Fermilab show discrepancy between theory and experiment, which may lead to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Physicists now have a brand-new measurement…
In the search for dark matter — the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up more than 80% of matter in our universe — scientists and…
The Dark SRF experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has achieved unprecedented sensitivity in the search for hypothetical dark photons. By innovatively employing superconducting…
The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab, utilizing the NuMI beam, has made the first precise depiction of a proton using neutrinos instead of light as the…
Dark matter makes up about 27% of the matter and energy budget in the universe, but scientists do not know much about it. They do…
The Dark Energy Camera has taken countless photos. Here are 15 of the most spectacular. The Dark Energy Camera has taken more than a million…
Most precise ever measurement of W boson mass shows tension with the Standard Model. After 10 years of careful analysis and scrutiny, scientists of the…
In the search for dark matter particles, a tabletop experiment in the heart of a Canadian mine might do the trick. The SENSEI collaboration uses…
The theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino has been dealt a blow by new results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of…
Experiment opens up field for new physics, say Fermilab, UChicago scientists. The news that muons have a little extra wiggle in their step sent word…
Sterile neutrinos are a special kind of neutrino that has been proposed to explain some unexpected experimental results, but they have not been definitively discovered….
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The ICARUS detector, part of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, will officially start its hunt for elusive sterile neutrinos this fall. The international collaboration led by…
Fermilab is known for cutting-edge experiments, particle physics research—and an adorable herd of bison. On April 26, baby bison season officially began at the lab….
Scientists experimenting with a subatomic particle called a muon encountered something unexpected in 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility…
The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed that fundamental particles called muons…