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03/26/19
Fermilab

Muon g-2 begins second run

Over the next three months, scientists expect to make the world’s most precise measurement of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment, often expressed as the quantity g-2.

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Conceptual illustration of a pie with a lattice crust

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

07/25/24
Sarah Charley

Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.

08/01/09

He stalks rare prey for its own good

Tom Peterson loves hunting season. He spends his lunch hours scouting the best spots, and weekends lurking around the edges of Fermilab's ponds and moving as silently as he can through old fields.

08/01/09

A scrub+ for SNO+

Imagine a house-sized acrylic fishbowl inside a giant, shiny, disco-ball-like sphere, suspended in a cavern as tall as a 10-story building. Now imagine climbing around inside that pitch-dark fishbowl with a squeegee and a flashlight.

Illustration of a jet breaking the sound barrier
08/01/09

Cherenkov light

Cherenkov light is the optical equivalent of a sonic boom.

Hitoshi Murayama
08/01/09

Hitoshi Murayama: The Emperor's Tea

When I assumed the position of director of the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), my smart-mouthed friends joked that I became the Director of the Universe.

08/01/09

Physics talk 2.0

From his California office, Doug Dechow stretched out on a grassy hill and listened to a particle physics lecture taking place in Chicago.

Logbook of July 2009
07/01/09

Pierre Auger Observatory

In 1991, James Cronin travelled to Leeds, England, to visit Alan Watson, an expert on cosmic-ray physics. Cronin, a Nobel Prize winner in physics who had worked on accelerator-based particle physics experiments, wanted to discuss ideas for cosmic-ray projects.

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