In February, national laboratories, universities and industry met to lay out the essential research to be accomplished, describe the engineering and design barriers, and set near-term goals.
The US Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Science joined Fermilab leadership and partners for a pair of milestones: the site dedication of the laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center and the groundbreaking for its PIP-II cryoplant building.
Twenty years after a cutting-edge particle physics experiment at SLAC adopted a royal elephant from a series of children’s books as its mascot, BaBar (the experiment, not the elephant) is still looking ahead to future discoveries.