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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Apr-2025 05:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 09:08 GMT/UTC)

13-Feb-2025

Photographing DUNE

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges.

17-Dec-2024

Fermilab expecting 95-ton coldbox delivery

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The coldbox, a vital piece of Fermilab’s new linear accelerator, is on a two-month voyage from France to its new home in Batavia, Illinois. It will be at the heart of the cryogenic system for the lab’s upgraded accelerator complex.

4-Dec-2024

Customizable quantum control toolkit developed at Fermilab ready for commercial production

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit now features updated software and firmware and new companion hardware called QICK box. This Fermilab-developed system combines everything a scientist might need to conduct mind-bending research in a pizza-box-sized case. Expanding on QICK’s ability to drastically improve quantum computer performance, QICK box offers flexibility for users to customize the system to their needs.

14-Oct-2024

Successful test delivers DUNE steel beam a mile underground

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Crews completed the first successful lift and lowering of a steel beam a mile underground for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.

10-Sep-2024

First neutrinos detected at Fermilab short-baseline detector

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

After years of preparation, the first neutrinos have been observed by the Short-Baseline Near Detector collaboration. The data SBND collects will expand our knowledge of how neutrinos interact with matter and will be used to search for evidence of new physics.

12-Aug-2024

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos, providing a first look at the ability of this innovative technology to handle large numbers of the mysterious particles’ interactions.

17-Jul-2023

What does the Standard Model predict for the magnetic moment of the muon?

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

A large number of scientists are working on improving the Standard Model prediction of the value of muon g-2 using new data and new lattice calculations. By measuring and calculating this number to ultra-high precision, scientists can test whether the Standard Model is complete.

30-Mar-2023

DUNE collaboration tests new technology for second detector module

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists working on the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are developing a vertical drift detector. The new technology may open doors to building large neutrino detectors at a lower cost and in a simpler manner.

30-Mar-2023

DUNE collaboration ready to ramp up mass production for first detector module

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The international DUNE collaboration is conducting final tests of the components for its first neutrino detector module, to be installed a mile underground in South Dakota. Preparations for ramping up the mass production of these components are underway.

14-Dec-2022

It’s colossal: Creating the world’s largest dilution refrigerator

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

To cool quantum computing components, researchers use machines called dilution refrigerators. Researchers and engineers from the SQMS Center are building Colossus, the largest, most powerful refrigerator at millikelvin temperatures ever made. The new machine will enable new physics and quantum computing experiments.