A short animation to show how a Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chamber can detect a neutrino based upon the neutrino's interaction with an argon atom.

The experiments based at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are undergoing a constant series of upgrades. Fermilab scientists Steve Nahn and Vivian O’Dell lead these upgrade efforts in the United States.

Fermilab and Department of Energy officials broke ground on a new building that will house the Muon g-2 experiment. The new experiment will study the magnetic wobble of muons, and the core of the experiment—a 50-foot-wide electromagnet—will be transported this summer in one piece by barge and truck from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The Muon g-2 experiment will be the first to use a new beam of muons from Fermilab's upgraded accelerator complex. A second experiment called Mu2e is also planned. Further information can be found at: http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/

Why I Love Neutrinos is a series spotlighting those mysterious, abundant, ghostly particles that are all around us. This installment features Mark Thomson, professor of physics at the University of Cambridge. For more information on neutrinos, visit the Fermilab website at http://www.fnal.gov.

Six days. Three frontiers. One amazing lab. From 2010 to 2012, a film crew followed a group of scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermilab and filmed them at work and at home. This 40-minute documentary shows the diversity of the people, research and work at Fermilab. Viewers catch a true behind-the-scenes look of the United States' premier particle physics laboratory while scientists explain why their research is important to them and the world.

Scientists included: Brendan Casey, Herman White, Craig Hogan, Denton Morris, Mary Convery, Bonnie Fleming, Deborah Harris, Dave Schmitz, Brenna Flaugher and Aron Soha.

Fermilab DZero experiment representative Michael Kirby explains the Dzero experiment and their search for the Higgs Boson

On Jan. 23, 2012, Fermilab broke ground for a one-of-its-kind research facility to develop and operate particle detectors that use liquid-argon technology to explore the mysteries of energy, matter, space and time. The new generation of liquid-argon detectors will allow scientists to observe neutrino interactions with greater precision and resolution than ever before. The MicroBooNE experiment (URL: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/....archive_2011/today11 ), which comprises a 170-ton neutrino detector, will be the first to move into the new facility. Reposted 12/30.

Bruce Chrisman, Fermilab scientist emeritus and former chief operating officer for the laboratory, tells the story of how Fermilab came to be the first Department of Energy laboratory with a daycare center on site.

A renowned physicist and recipient of numerous science awards, including the Nobel Prize, famed former Fermilab Director Leon Lederman was everyman to the kids he met. Fermilab's Dee Hahn recounts how Lederman entertained the children at the Fermilab daycare center.

A time-lapse of the Fermilab muon g-2 ring being installed and prepped, from June 27, 2014 to June 5, 2015.

Fermilab recently hosted more than 300 middle school students from 13 schools for a special showing of Hidden Figures and a panel discussion with four Fermilab scientists, including Karl Warburton. This video was played as part of the panel introductions.

The goal of the program was to show fifth- to eighth-grade students that entering a STEM field was possible for them – no matter their background. You can read more about the event here:
http://news.fnal.gov/2018/02/f....ermilab-organizes-hi

Karl Warburton discusses how every physicist always adds something to the field since every individual approaches the study in a new way. A scientist on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Warburton draws new information from pictures of simulated events, and each piece, collaboratively sewn together, contributes to our understanding of the universe.

Fermilab's muon-g-2 ring started its road journey, leaving Lemont, Illinois on a special transporter designed by Emmert International for this purpose. This video documents the first of three nights of the route.

In this public lecture, Fermilab physicist Dan Bauer explains what scientists know about dark matter, the mysterious, invisible stuff that accounts for most of the matter in the universe. After presenting evidence for the existence of dark matter, he describes some of the physics experiments that scientists build and operate to look for signals from dark matter particles. From going deep underground to operating equipment at temperatures close to absolute zero to operating the most powerful particle collider in the world, scientists are pushing technological boundaries in their quest to discover the building blocks of dark matter. This lecture was held at Fermilab in October 2018 as part of a worldwide series of events to celebrate Dark Matter Day.

For more information visit https://www.darkmatterday.org

Every spring new baby bison are born into the Femilab "buffalo" herd. In 2009, six calves were born. The young calves appear in a cinnamon-colored coat for the first few months. By four months of age, they are dark brown like the adults in the herd. Fermilab Visual Media Services was able to move into the herd, among the newborn, with the help of the herdsman, in a truck that is familiar to the bison.

After a long water journey, a large crowd gathers to watch the muon-g-2 ring being placed onto the Emmert transporter for its journey to Fermilab.

The final installation of the cryogenic module at the Superconducting RF (radio frequency) Facility at Fermilab creates an asset for testing current and future technologies in the superconducting RF field. Superconducting RF technologies will be critical for development of future accelerator based research facilities, and this facility will help develop, test and analyze these technologies.

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, developed 100 years ago, predicts the existence of gravitational waves. In February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) became the first experiment to observe gravitational waves, created by two black holes spiraling into each other. The discovery became known as the chirp heard around the world. Four month later, a few hours before this public lecture, LIGO announced the discovery of a second signal. This lecture, given by Dr. Barry Barish, LIGO director from 1997 to 2006, explains the physics of gravitational waves, the detection technique used by LIGO, the observations made and the implications these discoveries have on our understanding of the cosmos.

More than 180 scientists from 32 institutions are working on the design and construction of the Mu2e experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. On April 18, 2015, the collaboration gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at the lab. The discovery of the direct conversion of a muon to an electron would revolutionize scientists’ understanding of the symmetries underlying the building blocks of our universe and open the door to finding new particles and forces.

In this one-hour public lecture Josh Frieman, director of the Dark Energy Survey, presents an overview of our current knowledge of the universe and describe new experiments and observatories. Over the last two decades cosmologists have made remarkable discoveries: Only 4 percent of our universe is made of ordinary matter - atoms, molecules, etc. The other 96 percent is dark, in forms unlike anything with which we are familiar. About 25 percent is dark matter, which holds galaxies and larger-scale structures together and may be a new elementary particle. And 70 percent is thought to be dark energy, an even more mysterious entity which speeds up the expansion of the universe. Josh Frieman is senior staff scientist at the Fermilab and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. The Dark Energy Survey is a collaboration of 300 scientists from 25 institutions on 3 continents, which built and uses a powerful 570-Megapixel camera on a telescope in Chile to carry out a 5-year survey of 300 million galaxies and thousands of supernovae to probe dark energy and the origin of cosmic acceleration.

This 3-minute video shows the highlights of the visit and statements made by a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology when they toured research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on May 12, 2018. Five Members of Congress toured R&D facilities and discussed with Fermilab scientists the lab’s flagship neutrino research program. The video includes footage of Fermilab’s accelerator technology research areas, neutrino experiments located 350 feet underground, the Muon g-2 experiment, the lab’s quantum computing laboratory and remote control rooms for particle physics experiments. Statements were made by Energy Subcommittee Chairman Randy Weber (R-Texas), House Science Committee Vice Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Oklahoma), Representative Bill Foster (D-Illinois), Environment Subcommittee Chairman Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) and Representative Neal Dunn (R-Florida). Science Committee staff members also participated in the tour.