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Fermilab hosts DUNE and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, being built by scientists and engineers from more than 30 countries.

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Fermilab explores the universe at the smallest and largest scales, studying the fundamental particles and forces that govern our universe.

Accelerator science and technology

Fermilab designs, builds and operates powerful accelerators to investigate nature's building blocks, advancing technology for science and society.

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Fermilab pioneers the research and development of particle detection technology and scientific computing applications and facilities.

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First major superconducting component for new high-power accelerator arrives at Fermilab

The first major superconducting section of the PIP-II accelerator has come to Fermilab: the first of 23 cryomodules for the future accelerator. Their job is to get the lab's powerful proton beam up and moving as it speeds to higher and higher energies, approaching the speed of light. The cryomodule also represents a successful joint effort between Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab to design and produce a critical accelerator component for the future heart of Fermilab.

A glimpse into the future: accelerated computing for accelerated particles

A new machine learning technology tested by Fermilab scientists and collaborators can spot specific particle signatures among an ocean of LHC data in the blink of an eye, much faster than standard methods. Sophisticated and swift, its performance gives a glimpse into the game-changing role machine learning will play in making future discoveries in particle physics as data sets get bigger and more complex.

Fermilab's newest accelerator delivers first results

Fermilab researchers have announced first results from IOTA, the lab's newest particle accelerator. The first run, which included observations of single electrons circulating in the ring, illustrates the exciting potential of the versatile machine, both in advancing quantum science and improving accelerator beams.

A million pulses per second: How particle accelerators are powering X-ray lasers

Three United States DOE national laboratories — SLAC, Fermilab and Jefferson Lab — have partnered to build an advanced particle accelerator that will power the LCLS-II X-ray laser. Thanks to technology developed for nuclear and high-energy physics, the new X-ray laser will produce a nearly continuous wave of electrons and allow scientists to peer more deeply than ever before into the building blocks of life and matter.

Exhibit on relativity on display at Fermilab through September

If you've ever wondered what it was like to learn about the mind-bending concept of relativity when it first made a splash in public consciousness, come to Fermilab's latest history exhibit. See works written by Einstein and read the public response to his groundbreaking theory.

Fermilab promotes science and diversity at Wakandacon in Chicago

At the event, Fermilab scientists discussed challenges related to diversity in STEM, promoted opportunities to visit and intern at the lab, and dazzled crowds with science, liquid-nitrogen demonstrations and even an original Black Panther-inspired costume.

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"Evil-genius" neutrino gun could finally unmask the tiniest particles in the universe

From Live Science, Aug. 19, 2019: The international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab, is first in this list of important upcoming neutrino experiments. Both the Fermilab accelerator complex and the giant underground detector will enable scientists to study perhaps the most underrated particles known to humankind.

Boosting computing power for the future of particle physics

From MIT News, Aug. 19, 2019: A new prototype machine-learning technology co-developed by Fermilab and MIT scientists speeds Large Hadron Collider data processing by up to 175 times over traditional methods.

Physicists working to discover new particles, dark matter

From Texas Tech Today, Aug. 5, 2019: Texas Tech physicists have been looking for dark matter at the CMS experiment at CERN and studying neutrinos.

Fifty years ago, Fermilab turned to bubbles

From Science News, Aug. 8, 2019: It's a news flashback. Science News excerpts a bit on the Fermilab Bubble Chamber from their August 16, 1969, issue. "Use by visitors is expected to be especially large at the National Accelerator Laboratory now under construction at Batavia, Ill.... NAL staff and consultants agree that the laboratory will need a large bubble chamber, and it now plans to build one in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory."

Resurrected detector will hunt for some of the strangest particles in the universe

From Science, Aug. 8, 2019: Fermilab physicists are resurrecting a massive particle detector by lowering it into a tomblike pit and embalming it with a chilly fluid. In August, workers eased two gleaming silver tanks bigger than shipping containers, the two halves of the detector, into a concrete-lined hole. Hauled from Europe two years ago, ICARUS will soon start a second life seeking perhaps the strangest particles physicists have dreamed up, oddballs called sterile neutrinos.

Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why

From Popular Science, July 29, 2019: "Death by Dark Matter" is not the name of your new favorite metal band; it's the literal title of a new study by a trio of American of physicists. Fermilab science Dan Hooper is quoted in this article on their paper, which explores what the hypothetical consequences might be on the human population if a certain candidate of dark matter turned out to be true.