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Apr 11 | News
Scientists
have for decades contemplated communicating via neutrinos when other
methods won’t do. For the first time, physicists and engineers at Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory’s MINERvA detector have successfully
transmitted a message through 240 m of rock using these ghost-like
particles.
Mar 7 | News
Two
teams of physicists using results from a now-closed Tevatron
collider at the Fermi National Laboratory have come up with findings
that corroborate and build on those announced late last year by
researchers at the more powerful Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Their
work lends credence to the claim that the Higgs boson will be found by
the end of 2012.
Mar 2 | News
The world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The new measurement is an important, independent constraint of the mass of the theorized Higgs boson. It also provides a rigorous test of the Standard Model that serves as the blueprint for our world, detailing the properties of the building blocks of matter and how they interact.
Feb 14 | News
The latest addition to computing power at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is a 45-teraflop cluster of graphics processing units (GPU) that scientists use to explore the properties of the strong nuclear force. The GPU nodes power through data faster than any other computing nodes at more than five times the rate of the processing units of the previous generation.
Jan 9 | News
Two teams at Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have independently made the largest direct measurements of the invisible scaffolding of the universe, using the gravitational lensing effect known as "cosmic shear" to build maps of the distribution of dark matter.
12/14/2011 | News
Two
experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the
space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced
Tuesday. However, the ATLAS and CMS experiments see modest excesses in
their data that could soon uncover the famous missing piece of the
physics puzzle.
11/17/2011 | News
Made
from 368,640 tubes of white PVC that will eventually be filled with 500
truckloads of mineral oil, the skeleton of the Department of Energy’s
NOvA detector could be the largest structure ever to be built from
plastic. A hydraulic system built to help assemble the 200-ton plastic
blocks successfully passed a recent test run.
11/16/2011 | News
In
terms of emissions, just one pound of sulfur hexafluoride, a nontoxic
gas used in electric insulation, is equivalent to about 11 tons of
carbon dioxide. Energy Department experts are hunting down this and
other fugitive carbon emissions and have already prevented the release
of 600,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent.
10/18/2011 | News
On Sept. 30, thousands of collaborating scientists and employees gathered online to see the Tevatron particle accelerator, which for three decades accumulated scientific and technological achievements, power down one final time.
10/4/2011 | News
The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab, Batavia, Ill., was powered down on
Sept. 30, 2011 after more than 25 years of operation.
