The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is located in Batavia, Illinois, and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The lab specializes in particle physics and is home to a 215-meter-long particle accelerator. New developments in quantum computing are also being researched. To learn more about the extensive research initiatives being conducted in the lab, visit SciTechDaily.com.
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….
The Argonauts of Greek mythology braved sharp rocks, rough seas, magic, and monsters to find the fabled Golden Fleece. A new robotics project at the…
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…
Qubits offer a fast, highly reliable way to solve one of the great mysteries in physics. Some kind of invisible material is out there affecting…
Scientists are testing our fundamental understanding of the universe, and there’s much more to discover. What do touch screens, radiation therapy and shrink wrap have…
The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving…
A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment. Modern physics is full of the sort of twisty, puzzle-within-a-puzzle…
The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the…
A combination of observational data and sophisticated computer simulations have yielded advances in a field of astrophysics that has languished for half a century. The…
Magnet Designers Look to the Future of Light Sources With New Prototype After more than 15 years of work, scientists at three DOE national laboratories…
A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields…
