Large Hadron Collider: Beams Are Back on at World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator Nov 21, 2009
American scientists have played an important role in the construction of the LHC. About 150 scientists, engineers and technicians from three DOE national laboratories -- Brookhaven Lab, Fermilab and Berkeley Lab -- built critical accelerator components. They are joined by colleagues from DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin in ongoing LHC accelerator R&D. The work has been supported by the DOE Office of Science. (Science Daily)
Giant atom-smasher poised for restart: CERN Nov 21, 2009
The maximum output of what is currently the largest functioning collider in the world, at the Fermilab near Chicago in the United States, is one teraelectronvolt. CERN had said in August that upon its relaunch, the LHC will run at 3. (Yahoo! Asia News)
CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14 mths Nov 21, 2009
The LHC is expected soon to be running with more energy the world's current most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago. It is supposed to keep ramping up to seven times the energy of Fermilab in coming years. (India Times)
Big Bang machine near restart after repairs Nov 18, 2009
Friendly rivalryThe current caution gives a little more time to the collider's chief rival, the United States' Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago, to beat the European machine to the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson ... It is a friendly rivalry with many of the scientists working both at Fermilab and at CERN, which is run by 20 European countries with support from other nations, including observers Japan, India, Russia and the U.S. that have made big contributions to the LHC.. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Scientists convene at SRS ecology lab Nov 17, 2009
SREL will be hosting the workshop for representatives from all seven environmental research park sites: Los Alamos (New Mexico), Hanford (Washington), Nevada, Oak Ridge (Tennessee), Fermilab (Illinois), Idaho, and Savannah River. The first day of the workshop will involve a limited group of NERP representatives, including officials from the Savannah River Site, who will discuss research aspects at the various NERP sites. (The Augusta Chronicle)
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 and Ninomiya's theories are clearly crazy theories," says Dmitri Denisov, a physicist and Higgs-hunter at the DZero experiment at Fermilab ... "The concept that you could have a wave-particle duality... (Time.com)
At Effingham business expo, speaker predicts future economic trends Oct 2, 2009
Another key resource in the state is research at places like the Fermilab near Chicago, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois. Such research potentially will lead to significant developments that could spur economic activity, according to Judd. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Healthcare Expert Cherilyn Murer Named to Head Northern Illinois Proton Board Aug 21, 2009
Joint research partnerships between researchers from Fermilab and Argonne National Lab will help to advance the field of proton therapy worldwide. NIPTRC's unique holistic cancer care mission will provide patients with services that include nutrition, speech pathology, physical therapy, family counseling and educational tutoring for pediatric patients. (PR Newswire)
To Understand The Universe, Science Calls On The Ultrasmall Aug 19, 2009
Weighing 500 kilotons, it will detect neutrinos from a beam of particles sent from Fermilab's proton accelerator in Illinois. Another device, Fermilab's MiniBooNE detector, records neutrino oscillations and consists of a 40-foot diameter spherical tank holding 800 tons of mineral oil ... 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)
Particle Collider Sparks New 'Black Hole' Fears Aug 9, 2009
5 trillion electron volts, or TeV. That's only half the level the machine was designed for, but it's still 3 1/2 times higher than the second most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago. During last year's brief startup phase, the CERN collider only operated at half the Fermilab level. (Fox News)
Giant particle collider fizzles, adding to mysteries of life Aug 5, 2009
Slowing a recent physics brain drain from the United States to Europe, some have gone to work at Fermilab, where the rival Tevatron accelerator has been smashing together protons and antiprotons for the last decade ... If that were the case, said Joe Lykken, a Fermilab theorist who is on one of the CERN collider teams, "It's not the end of the world. I am not pessimistic at all." ... Slowing a recent physics brain drain from the United States to Europe, some have gone to work at Fermilab, where... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Atom-smasher relaunch delayed to November: official Aug 5, 2009
"We will certainly be above one teraelectronvolt" -- the maximum output of what remains the largest functioning collider in the world, the Tevatron at the national Fermilab near Chicago -- by the end of the year, he said. Before the maiden launch last Fall, the LHC's component parts had been tested to an energy equivalent of 5 teraelectronvolts, but it may be several years before the machine is able to operate at such high levels. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Electron State Shows String Theory 'In Action' Jul 7, 2009
(July 18, 2007) New fundamental particles aren't found only at Fermilab and at other particle accelerators. They also can be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, scientists at the University of Illinois report. (Science Daily)
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) ... The Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab is unique in its ability to produce baryons containing the b quark, and the large data samples now available after many years of successful running enable experimenters to find and study these rare... (Science Daily)
Angels & Demons antimatter theory debunked May 21, 2009
During the big bang, there were equal parts of matter and antimatter in the universe, Kayser said, and understanding what happened to antimatter is a main focus of research at Fermilab. Text. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Atomic Physics Study Sets New Limits On Hypothetical New Particles May 4, 2009
5, 2008) The CDF and DZero collaborations at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab are advancing the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson ... 8, 2008) The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab in Illinois ... The latest data from the collider experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermilab now exclude a significant fraction of the. (Science Daily)
What happens at absolute zero? Apr 14, 2009
There really is no physical description that allows for [an atom at] zero temperature e-mails of Fermilab. If an atom could attain absolute zero, its wave function would extend across the universe, which means the atom is located nowhere. (Globe and Mail)
Chicago in the News Apr 3, 2009
Fermilab received $34 ... This is a very strong signal that the Department of Energy believes in the future of Fermilab and Argonne, said Rep ... Bill Foster (D-Geneva), a former Fermilab scientist. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
New Experiments Constrain Higgs Mass Mar 23, 2009
The latest analysis of data from the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab now excludes a significant fraction of the allowed Higgs mass range established by earlier measurements. Those experiments predict that the Higgs particle should have a mass between 114 and 185 GeV/c2. (Science Daily)
Strange Particle Created; May Rewrite How Matter's Made Mar 21, 2009
An unexpected new subatomic particle has been discovered in Illinois's Fermilab atom smasher, scientists announced this week. The new particle may break all known rules for creating matter, say the researchers who created the oddity. (National Geographic)
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 ... Sifting through trillions of proton-antiproton collisions from Fermilab s Tevatron, CDF scientists identified a small sampling of B+ mesons that decayed in an unexpected pattern ... The Y(4140)... (Science Daily)
Precision Measurement Of W Boson Mass Portends Stricter Limits For Higgs Particle Mar 18, 2009
The exact value of the W mass is crucial for calculations that allow scientists to estimate the likely mass of the Higgs boson by studying its subtle quantum effects on the W boson and the top quark, an elementary particle that was discovered at Fermilab in 1995 ... This beautiful measurement illustrates the power of the Tevatron as a precision instrument and means that the stress test we have ordered for the Standard Model becomes more stressful and more revealing, said Fermilab theorist Chris... (Science Daily)
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles Mar 18, 2009
At Fermilab, Bruce Knuteson and Stephen Mrenna have for some years advocated a more "holistic" approach called global search. Instead of looking for particular signatures, they wrote software that analyzes all the data and compares them with predictions of the so-called Standard Model, which comprises the known set of laws of particle physics. (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. (Fermilab via Associated Press) ... "It is possible we will see good evidence for the Higgs before the LHC has enough data to do the same," said Jacobo Konigsberg, a University of Florida physicist working at Fermilab. (Boston Globe)
Physicists closer to finding 'God Particle' Mar 15, 2009
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 ... It is not scheduled to be turned back on until September of this year, while researchers at the rival Fermilab have cranked up their efforts to discover the Higgs ... Using Fermilab's Tevatron collider, researchers were able... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Medford High School announces 2009 Science Fair winners Mar 14, 2009
This year s featured speakers included seniors, Michael-Erik Ronlund and Christine Deasy who worked at FermiLab in Chicago, Ill. with MHS physics teacher Michael Wadness, as well as Michelle Ly, who described her independent research project at the Broad Institute in Cambridge. (Medford Transcript, MA)
Fermilab Provides More Constraints on the Elusive Higgs Boson Mar 14, 2009
RACE TO THE BOTTOM: Physicists are in hot pursuit of the hypothesized Higgs boson, which gives other elementary particles mass, using instruments such as the CDF detector at Fermilab ... "This is a very interesting time in particle physics, because we have this Standard Model, which explains everything we've observed and everything we know about for the last 30 years with no significant deviations. And, yet, we know that the Standard Model can't be the whole story of nature," says , and a member... (Scientific American)
SARS spurs China to act on AIDS Mar 12, 2009
The possibility of a high-mass Higgs boson may have just evaporated with new data from Fermilab. 12:40 11 March 2009 - updated 14:23 11 March 2009. (Yahoo News -- SARS)
Rare Single Top Quark Discovered In Collider Mar 10, 2009
The discovery of the single top confirms important parameters of particle physics, including the total number of quarks, and has significance for the ongoing search for the Higgs particle at Fermilab s Tevatron, currently the world s most powerful operating particle accelerator ... I am thrilled that CDF and DZero achieved this goal, said Fermilab Director Pier Oddone ... 8, 2008) The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with two... (Science Daily)
High-tech career led here Mar 10, 2009
Stancari first came to the U.S. in 1994 as a graduate student to work at the Fermilab particle accelerator in Batavia, Ill. At first blush America struck him as a "very strange, and very different place." During his time at Fermilab, Stancari was surprised at how little importance was placed on meal times in the U.S. compared to Italy ... Michelle is also a physicist and the two met while working at Fermilab. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Brown physicists play key role in single top quark discovery Mar 10, 2009
" Brown University joined institutions from around the world to announce on Monday the discovery of the single top quark through the weak nuclear force, shown in this diagram. Brown graduate student Monica Pangilinan is a member of the team that made the single top quark discovery. Brown physicists David Cutts, one of the founding members of the DZero experiments, and Greg Landsberg also are active in the DZero tests. The DZero group comprises 600 physicists from 90 institutions in 18 countries.... (EurekAlert!)
AROUND THE COMMUNITY Mar 7, 2009
Fermilab parking lot on Pine Street near Kirk Road in Batavia. Event contact: Chris Madsen at 630-377-0773. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Policy students tackle the physical sciences Mar 6, 2009
Weekly briefings are given by distinguished science experts, including Robert Rosner, Director of Argonne National Laboratory, discussing energy policy; and Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate and Fermilab Director Emeritus, briefing the students on science education. A signal of the Harris School s expanding reach beyond the social sciences, the class is a collaboration between Robert Michael, the Eliakim Hasting Moore Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Harris School, and Edward Rocky... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Sunday Science series prepares to end season Mar 3, 2009
While a research scientist at Stony Brook, he was one of the original members of the D0 experiment, which has been collecting data at Fermilab since 1992 ... Hedin formed the NIU particle physics group 20 years ago and it continues to search for new phenomena such as the Higgs boson or extra dimensions at experiments at Fermilab and CERN.. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
PHYSICS: Fermilab, European accelerator race for glory Mar 2, 2009
Fermilab, and scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research manning the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, are in a race to find evidence of the particle nicknamed "God Particle" because it is believed to give mass to matter that makes up the universe ... "This has been the holy grail of high-energy physics for the last 30 years," Joe Lykken, a senior scientist at Fermilab in the Chicago suburb of Batavia, said last week ... Just months ago, it appeared that evidence of the... (North County Times)
'Doomsday Machine' Suddenly Has American Rival Feb 25, 2009
"This has been the holy grail of high energy physics for the last 30 years," Joe Lykken, a senior scientist at Fermilab in the Chicago suburb of Batavia, said Wednesday. Just months ago, it appeared that evidence of the Higgs would be found by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) manning the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) not those at Fermilab ... The idea that Fermilab could pull ahead seemed about as likely as a Model T beating a Corvette in a drag race. (Fox News)
Crown to step down from Chairman post, continue Trustee service Feb 20, 2009
Under his leadership, the University was awarded contracts to manage Argonne and Fermilab, and he led the search that resulted in my appointment as president in 2006. Crown also serves as the Chairman of the Medical Center Board of Trustees, and as Chairman of the Medical Center Executive Committee. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Race for 'God particle' heats up Feb 18, 2009
But the US Fermilab says the odds of its Tevatron accelerator detecting the famed particle first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best ... Cern and Fermilab officials squared up at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago ... Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab. (BBC News)
Officials set timetable for getting particle collider back on track Feb 17, 2009
If the superparticles are there, said Joe Lykken, a Fermilab theorist who is a member of the team that runs a detector called CMS, for Compact Muon Solenoid, at CERN, physicists may be able to characterize them, "almost at the moment of discovery. With luck, this could indeed happen by the end of 2010.". The signature quest of the Hadron collider, a particle known as the Higgs boson that in theory imbues other particles with mass, will probably take longer, because it is harder to make. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Scientists from the Labs to University participate Feb 8, 2009
The University manages Argonne and co-manages Fermilab for the U.S. Department of Energy. Together, the three institutions attract more than $1. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Holographic Universe: Discovery Could Herald New Era In Fundamental Physics Feb 7, 2009
Craig Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab Centre for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 of a holographic Universe and that his ideas could explain mysterious noise in the detector data that has not been explained so far. The British-German team behind the GEO600, which includes scientists from the School of Physics and Astronomy's Gravitational Physics Group, will now carry out new experiments in the coming... (Science Daily)
