Circulation of LHC Beams Could Resume in Earnest over the Weekend Nov 21, 2009
2 TeV, which would already surpass the current top dog among particle accelerators, the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Particle collisions, accomplished by steering a clockwise particle beam into a counterclockwise one, are "the other capability that must be demonstrated before we can really say the LHC is up and running," according to Gillies. (Scientific American)
Atom-smasher ready to reboot Nov 13, 2009
When push comes to shove, the name of the game is 'what is nature,' and we're not going to know until our experimental colleagues tell us," --Mark Wise, professor of physics at Caltech RELATED TOPICS Mark Wise, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, said he's just as excited about the results that will come out of the LHC as he was last year, and views the September 2008 accident as a delay rather than a devastating event. Wise noted that Tevatron, the collider at the... (CNN)
Tiny Injector To Speed Development Of New, Safer, Cheaper Drugs Nov 13, 2009
22, 2005) Scientists at the Department of Energy s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will begin a projected five-year experiment in early February, 2005 by sending the first batches of subatomic. (Mar. (Science Daily)
Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Hadron Collider? Nov 11, 2009
What's more, some scientists believe that the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (or Fermilab) near Chicago has already created Higgs bosons without incident; the Fermilab scientists are now refining data from their collisions to prove the Higgs' existence. Nielsen counters that nature might allow a small number of Higgs to be produced by the Tevatron, but would prevent the production of the large number of particles the LHC is anticipated to produce. (Time.com)
Bright light hints at a dark centre to the Galaxy Oct 20, 2009
The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has captured flashes of high-energy -ray light that might come from dark matter, according to Lisa Goodenough of New York University in New York City and Dan Hooper at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. In a paper posted on the arXiv pre-print server1, the duo suggests that flashes seen at the Milky Way s core could be caused by the collision of dark-matter particles with their antiparticles. (Scientific American)
Grid Computing, The New Commodity Aug 26, 2009
(May 5, 2005) Hundreds of scientists from the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are using the technology of the future to process particle physics data. . (Science Daily)
To Understand The Universe, Science Calls On The Ultrasmall Aug 19, 2009
22, 2005) Scientists at the Department of Energy s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will begin a projected five-year experiment in early February, 2005 by sending the first batches of subatomic ... 19, 2005) In an effort to pin down the elusive nature and qualities of one of nature's most intriguing subatomic particles - the neutrino - scientists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. (Science Daily)
Giant particle collider fizzles, adding to mysteries of life Aug 5, 2009
"These are baby problems," said Peter Limon, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill ... "These are baby problems," said Peter Limon, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
New Exotic Particle Observed Jun 30, 2009
ScienceDaily (June 29, 2009) At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b ( b) ... (Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) ... 4, 2008) Physicists of the DZero experiment at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the... (Science Daily)
Angels & Demons antimatter theory debunked May 21, 2009
Antimatter particles are subatomic particles that are mirror images of matter, added Boris Kayser of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and chairman of the American Physical Societys Division on Particle Physics. When the two come together, they annihilate one another, and their mass is released in the form of energy. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June May 16, 2009
Winstein comes from a particle physics background, a veteran of 30 years of experimental research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which also plays a role in QUIET. As a particle physicist, he was exploring physics at the highest energies that an accelerator could then achieve. Now, as a cosmological physicist probing the CMB, he stands on the brink of reaching nearly to the Planck scale, the highest energies that the universe can create. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Scholars, visiting faculty, leaders represent Chicago as AAAS fellows May 1, 2009
Craig Hogan, Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, was a member of one of the scientific teams that co-discovered dark energy in 1998. Dark energy is the mysterious force, whose repulsive gravity appears to accelerate the expansion of the universe. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Chicago in the News Apr 3, 2009
National labs earn federal funding Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have earned $48 million in federal stimulus funding, according to a Monday, March 23 article in Crain s Chicago Business. Fermilab received $34. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Researchers continuing review in touring mine lab Mar 26, 2009
Representatives from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, among others, met for a reception at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology on Wednesday night ... The experiment would essentially direct a beam of neutrinos created in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago to a receptor at DUSEL.. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Particle Oddball Surprises Physicists Mar 19, 2009
19, 2009) Scientists of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious characteristics may reveal new ways that quarks can combine to form matter ... The CDF scientists found evidence that some B mesons unexpectedly decay into an intermediate quark structure identified as a Y. (Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)... (Science Daily)
Precision Measurement Of W Boson Mass Portends Stricter Limits For Higgs Particle Mar 18, 2009
17, 2009) Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a single experiment. Combined with other measurements, the reduced uncertainty of the W boson mass will lead to stricter bounds on the mass of the elusive Higgs boson. (Science Daily)
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles Mar 18, 2009
The LHC and other accelerators such as the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. push protons or other particles to near light speed and smash them together. (Scientific American)
Scientists on trail of physics' Holy Grail Mar 17, 2009
In this 2000 photograph that was released Feb. 19 by Fermilab, workers installed a tracking chamber at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill ... Scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the atom smasher in Batavia, Ill. (Boston Globe)
Physicists closer to finding 'God Particle' Mar 15, 2009
CHICAGO: Physicists have come closer to finding the elusive "God Particle," which they hope could one day explain why particles have mass, the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced. Researchers at the Fermilab have managed to shrink the territory where the elusive Higgs Boson particle is expected to be found - a discovery placing the American research institute ahead of its European rival in the race to discover one of the biggest prizes in physics. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Rare Single Top Quark Discovered In Collider Mar 10, 2009
10, 2009) Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks ... 15, 2006) Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the first evidence of single top quarks produced in a rare subatomic process ... 23, 2006) Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National... (Science Daily)
Research team co-led by UC Riverside physicist observes production of single-top-quarks Mar 10, 2009
A group of 28 scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, co-led by UC Riverside's , has made the first observation of the production of single top quarks an observation that resulted from proton-antiproton collisions measured by the DZero detector in Fermilab's Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle collider. Previously, top quarks had only been observed when produced by the strong interaction between tiny elementary particles. (EurekAlert!)
Brown physicists play key role in single top quark discovery Mar 10, 2009
The discovery was announced Monday by scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Meenakshi Narain, professor of physics at Brown, has been involved with DZero since the early 1990s. (EurekAlert!)
Cosmologists seek to identify the physics of key components in their picture of the universe Mar 6, 2009
Nothing that happens there has any impact on us, said Dodelson, Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University and a scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. But there is a way to probe the validity of cosmic inflation. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
'Doomsday Machine' Suddenly Has American Rival Feb 25, 2009
Workmen install a tracking chamber at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill ... Workmen install a tracking chamber at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill ... CHICAGO So, does the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron accelerator have a shot against the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. (Fox News)
Fermilab, European accelerator race for glory Feb 23, 2009
CHICAGO So, does the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron accelerator have a shot against the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland ... Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (Yahoo News)
Physical, social scientists share new research results at AAAS annual meeting Feb 20, 2009
During the five-day symposium, scores of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University presented new research in their fields, including John Cacioppo, the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology, and Jean Decety, the Irving B. Harris Professor in Psychology and Psychiatry. Also among the presenters from the University were John Carlstrom, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Officials set timetable for getting particle collider back on track Feb 17, 2009
That is still five times the energy of the second-largest accelerator in the world, the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Much time and energy will be devoted to tuning up the machine and the giant five-story detectors, said Dave Charlton of the University of Birmingham, who works on the Atlas detector at CERN. "But the new plan to run for up to a year with very few stops gives us a great chance to find new physics sooner," he said. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Cosmologists Seek First Moments Of Universe Feb 17, 2009
"Since these are separate universes, by definition that means we can never have any contact with them. Nothing that happens there has any impact on us," said Dodelson, a scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. But there is a way to probe the validity of cosmic inflation. (Science Daily)
Scientists from the Labs to University participate Feb 8, 2009
During the course of the meeting, scores of researchers from the University, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will be among the speakers who will address an array of crucial and timely scientific issues. The University manages Argonne and co-manages Fermilab for the U.S. Department of Energy. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
