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06/12/18

New facility aims to shrink accelerators

Work has begun on an upgrade to the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino

10/29/24

Chris Patrick

Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.

03/01/07

Dark matter

Dark matter seems to be abundant in the universe but has yet to be directly detected.

03/01/07

Working outside the accelerator

A PhD in particle physics can be a stepping stone to a career outside physics research.

03/01/07

Name of fame

Counting the number of citations of a particular paper is one way to measure its impact and importance. But it is by no means the only gauge.

Photo of spectrometer moving through Karls

03/01/07

KATRIN’s odyssey

People went to great lengths, traveling almost 9000 kilometers over more than 60 days, to deliver an essential, 200-ton component of the KATRIN neutrino experiment.

03/01/07

Star Wars lands at Fermilab

Fermilab physicist Darren Crawford shares a birthdate, May 25, with the first Star Wars movie release. Now he is making his own mark on the fabled sci-fi fantasy series.

03/01/07

A snowstorm hit the Chicago area on February 13, before the start of the DOE/NSF agency review at Fermilab of the US ATLAS and US CMS collaborations, the US contributions to two of the Large Hadron Collider experiments.

02/01/07

Single top production

In 1985, ten years before scientists at Fermilab discovered the top quark, Scott Willenbrock was a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.

02/01/07

And they lived in physics bliss forever after

When physicists marry physicists, the beginning may be a "big bang," but issues of life, love, and family gravitate toward the universal.

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