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Particle Physicists Use Electrical Tape To Patch Tevatron

Tevatron Fermilab In particle physics, as in so many other parts of life, there are few things more useful than a trusty roll of tape.Just before Labor Day, physicists working with Fermilab's Tevatron...

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Fermilab is Building a 'Holometer' to Determine Once and For All Whether...

A Conceptual Drawing of the 'Holometer' via SymmetryResearchers at Fermilab are building a "holometer" so they can disprove everything you thought you knew about the universe. More specifically, they...

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Fermilab Experiment Hints At Existence of Brand-New Elementary Particle

MiniBooNE Focusing Device This focusing device, called a horn, is pulsed five times per second with a 170,000-amp current, creating a strong magnetic field that steers neutrinos toward the MiniBooNE...

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Farewell, Tevatron: Fermilab's Particle Accelerator Will Cease Operation This...

Fermilab's Tevatron Collider DOE Tough budgetary times spare no one, not even the last best hope of American researchers discovering the "god particle" on their home soil. Rumblings and rumors...

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Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force

Tevatron Fermilab Physicists at Fermilab might have found evidence of a new elementary particle or an entirely new force of nature, suggesting the nation's biggest science experiment is about to go...

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Tevatron Did Not See A New Particle After All, Fermilab Says

Fermilab's Tevatron Reidar Hahn/Fermilab America's grand particle smasher may not go out with a bang after all. A bump in data at the Tevatron, reported earlier this spring, turns out to be a false...

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Fermilab Astrophysicist's Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half

Plane Boarding WikimediaDr. Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist at Fermilab, came up with a method he claimed could cut airplane boarding times drastically about two years ago. More recently, he tested...

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Fermilab Will Double-Check CERN's Revolutionary Faster-Than-Light Claim

MINOS Experiment Far Detector NuMI/Fermilab So far, the only thing moving faster than light is speculation. But in the wake of last week's baffling neutrino news out of CERN, physicists are crunching...

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Fermilab Stops Smashing Hadrons, Looks Into Smashing Muons

Muon Collider Conceptual Layout Fermilab via ArsTomorrow Fermilab researchers will power down their Tevatron particle collider for the final time, marking the end of an era. But for some, that era is...

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Tevatron Closes After 28 Years of Particle Smashing

Fermilab Fermilab, Reidar Hahn View Photo GalleryToday, the Tevatron accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory just outside Chicago has closed, ending its 28 years of smashing protons...

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Looking to Commercialize Particle Acceleration, Fermilab Breaks Ground On New...

Fermilab Fermilab, Reidar Hahn Now that our European friends are oh-so-close to finding the elusive Higgs boson, what's an American accelerator facility to do? Go into the private sector. It's the...

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For the First Time, a Message Sent With Neutrinos

Neutrino Message University of Rochester In a major step for truly wireless communications, scientists have figured out how to send a message with neutrinos, transmitting a single word through 780...

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The Zero-Energy Frontier: Racing to Find the Higgs Boson

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5 Ways The Brand New Dark Energy Camera Will Utterly Change Our Understanding...

The Blanco Telescope in Chile, Where the Dark Energy Camera is Mounted T. Abbott and NOAO/AURA/NSF For something that we know absolutely nothing about, dark energy owns a prominent place in...

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Shipping A 50-Foot Magnet Across The U.S., For Physics

Moving Muons A model of the truck that will be used to transport the Muon g-2 ring, placed on a streetscape for scale. The truck will be escorted by police and other vehicles when it moves from...

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Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force

Physicists at Fermilab might have found evidence of a new elementary particle or an entirely new force of nature, suggesting the nation’s biggest science experiment is about…

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Tevatron Did Not See A New Particle After All, Fermilab Says

America’s grand particle smasher may not go out with a bang after all. A bump in data at the Tevatron, reported earlier this spring, turns out to be a false alarm— not a new…

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Fermilab Astrophysicist's Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half

Dr. Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist at Fermilab, came up with a method he claimed could cut airplane boarding times drastically about two years ago. More recently, he tested several different methods...

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Fermilab Will Double-Check CERN's Revolutionary Faster-Than-Light Claim

So far, the only thing moving faster than light is speculation. But in the wake of last week’s baffling neutrino news out of CERN, physicists are crunching numbers to test whether these ghostly...

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Fermilab Stops Smashing Hadrons, Looks Into Smashing Muons

Tomorrow Fermilab researchers will power down their Tevatron particle collider for the final time, marking the end of an era. But for some, that era is so over anyhow.

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