The US Department of Energy recently expressed support for continued US involvement in work on the CMS and ATLAS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. On Sept. 18, DOE gave their first stage of approval, Critical Decision-0, to plans for DOE-funded ... Continue reading →

As a graduate student, Laza Rakotondravohitra has already been a part of a couple of firsts in particle physics. He attended the first African School of Physics. He is also setting the bar high as the first international student from Madagascar to cond... Continue reading →

Fermilab’s plans for creating a Muon Campus with top-notch Intensity Frontier experiments have received a big boost. The Department of Energy has granted Mission Need approval to the Muon g-2 project, one of two experiments proposed for the new Muon ... Continue reading →

ATLAS Virtual Visits, a program run by one of the major experiments at CERN, took top prize for “Best Online Event” in the Digital Communication Awards, hosted by Quadriga University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, on Friday, Sept. 14. Continue reading →

Klystrons are what make linear accelerators—as well as radar, cancer treatments and some radio telescopes—work. Invented at Stanford University about 75 years ago, klystrons convert electricity into radio and microwave energy, a far more powerful v... Continue reading →

Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machin... Continue reading →

For most of the year, two beams of protons run the collision course around the Large Hadron Collider. Scientists take a short break from protons in winter to collide much heavier lead ions. In a test on Thursday, scientists collided the two types of pa... Continue reading →

Scientists, engineers and technicians on the NOvA collaboration posed on Monday, Sept. 10, in front of the newly installed first block of what will be the largest neutrino detector in the world. The 14-kiloton detector will allow physicists to study a ... Continue reading →