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09/21/17

Concrete applications for accelerator science

A project called A2D2 will explore new applications for compact linear accelerators.

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Conceptual illustration of two similar worlds directly opposite of one another

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement

09/24/24

Regina Demina and Kathryn Jepsen

The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?

02/01/06

One big step for safety

It looks like a simple silver trailer, but it's more like a shoe store on wheels. Mike Sitarz pulls his metal trailer, better known among Fermilab employees as the "shoemobile," behind the Technical Division industrial buildings at 8 a.m. every Tuesday.

02/01/06

GLAST into space

Particle physics detectors in space will record gamma rays in search of dark matter, the evolution of stars, and natures most powerful particle accelerators.

02/01/06

SymmeTree

Tired of the usual holiday decorations, SLAC librarian Lesley Wolf created the first ever "SymmeTree" last November.

02/01/06

ICFA: The committe behind the future of particle colliders

If the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) completes the evolution from physicists' dream to discovery machine, Jonathan Dorfan will know when and where the transforming moment occurred: August 20, 2004, in Beijing, China.

02/01/06

Seeking the elusive... snipe?

Instead of spin they have lift. They interact via songs. And they come in far more than just three colors.

01/01/06

Artifact: Relativator

Few periods in history were shaped by science as much as the 1950s. The Cold War was in full swing. The space race was finishing its first lap with Sputnik's launch. The Manhattan Project remained fresh in everyone's minds.

01/01/06

Particle physics goes to school

Students around the world are familiar with the periodic table of elements, a chart that outlines how protons, neutrons, and electrons form more than 100 different types of atoms.

01/01/06

B factories

B factories mass-produce B mesons, particles that contain a bottom quark.

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