Fermilab Definition and 19 Threads

Adrian Cho, who is always excellent, has a very good article on the recent difficulties Fermilab has been having: https://www.science.org/content/article/trouble-and-strife-deepen-famed-u-s-particle-physics-lab A little background. In 2007, the current contractor received the DOE contract to...

Fermilab's E989 experiment is conducting the first precision measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (muon g-2) since the Brookhaven lab did so fifteen years ago. It is currently collecting Run-3 data for this experiment, and said that it would be releasing preliminary Run-1...

Hi all, I'm reading an article describing the D0 experiment at Fermilab during Run II. Proportional drift tubes and mini drift tubes were used to detect muons: can someone explain me the difference between these two kinds of drift tubes? Thanks Federica

I've come across a few different videos from this person and I'm curious if they are accurate enough to rely on.

Homework Statement This is why we build them as colliders now: Some years ago Fermilab used to extract its high energy proton beam for use by "fixed target" experiments situated at the ends of external beamlines a mile north of the Tevatron ring. The energy available for the production of...

As a theoretical physicist, what is a better facility to work at? (based on the following criteria) Job stability Access to new research Freedom of work (Any field) Better colleagues Better Tech/Equipment Better pay (not that important)

CERN recently announced (http://cds.cern.ch/record/2140095/) a null result for the X(5568) tetraquark which Fermilab has announced (http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07588) it discovered with a statistical significance of 5.1sigma. This is very disturbing to me. Why is this? I am not an expert on...

Nearly five years after the Tevatron was decommissioned the experimental collaborations are still analyzing data and today Fermilab announced that DZero discovers a new particle consistent with a tetraquark This candidate is different from previous discoveries in that it contains four...

Great youtube introduction video about Quantum Field Theory (QFT) from a couple of days ago by Dr Don Lincoln @fermilab. The video and description of a particle being a disturbance in a field and flying through the air at 3:25 is especially compelling.

"Other experiments to test whether the neutrino is, weirdly, its own antiparticle may be feasible only if the hierarchy is inverted." Why? http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/08/u-s-neutrino-experiments-first-result-tantalizes?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_src=email

Hi, I applied to the Fermilab summer Lee Teng Intership. I have heard it is super competitive though. Does anyone know when should I hear back from them? Do they send an email or letter? Do they notify you if you are not accepted? Thanks for your support!

I was reading about Fermilab moving their new storage ring to the Muon Campus for the Muon g-2 experiment. I was curious about how the produce the Muons. I understand that protons hit a graphite target producing pions that quickly decay into Muons. How much energy are is required? How much...

The title says it all. The top is heavier than the Higgs boson. In that case, why was the LHC needed to find the Higgs conclusively? (a related question is: how strong was the evidence for the Higgs from the Tevatron?) Is the answer simply a question of higher luminosity at the LHC?? Or is the...

The tevatron was shut september 30, 2011 at Fermilab National Laboratory. Basically the particle research is now done in CERN instead. This is bad news because I was planning to do an internship there for high energy physics. Does this mean that I shouldn't be applying for high energy physics...

So, I have an offer from the URochester REU to work on a project at Fermilab this summer, on the MINERvA neutrino experiments. The thing is, I'm much more interested in theory than experiment for particle physics. On the other hand, this is Fermilab. However, I was wondering whether or not...

So, did anyone here participated in trying to http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-fermilab-code-both-11jul11,0,1755934.story" sent to Fermilab a few weeks ago? Zz.

and it was AMAZING! :cool:

I'm speechless, I had an interview this afternoon to work at Fermilab this summer. I pray that I get the job.

Everyone might have time to polish their theory. http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/20070329_page01.html Fermilab Statement on LHC Magnet Test Failure