Sean Carroll of CalTech speaks at the 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting.
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The most famous equation in all of science is Einstein’s E = mc2, but it is also frequently horribly misunderstood and misused. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains the real truth about this equation and how people often use it wrong.

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The Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Laboratory is an X-ray laser that allows scientists to take snapshots of atoms and molecules in motion, revealing fundamental processes in materials, technology and living things. Its strobe-like pulses are just a few millionths of a second long, and a billion times brighter than previous X-ray sources. Fermilab is providing SLAC with 22 cryomodules for the LCLS-II upgrade, which will take X-ray science to the next level, opening the door to a whole new range of studies of the ultrafast and ultrasmall.

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The Dark Energy Camera is a 570-Megapixel digital camera being built at Fermilab. Once the mechanics of the support are tested and approved, the unit will be disassembled and shipped to its final assembly and mounting location at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This time-lapse consists of 6 percent of the images captured from January through October of 2010. For information on this international project, see http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/index.shtml

Fermilab CDF experiment representative Barbara Alvarez explains the experiment and the search for the Higgs Boson

There's so much we still don't know about our universe and how it evolved into the place we call home. Why does matter exist all around us, and how do the tiniest particles fit into the big picture? A worldwide community has embarked on a journey to uncover the secrets of our world with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. The project, powered by the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, will send neutrinos from the host laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, to the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. This video explores the excitement, the science, and the mysteries of DUNE.

Poem: Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy
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Video supported by Fermi Research Alliance and South Dakota Science and Technology Authority

Fermilab Dr. Greg Rakness is a Hero of the LHC for his work in organizing the commissioning and operations of the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the two big LHC detectors.

Many know Micky Dolenz for his work as an actor and musician for the Monkees – but he’s also a huge particle physics fan. Dolenz captured some 16mm footage during a 1970 visit to the burgeoning Fermilab, then known as the National Accelerator Laboratory. In 2018, Dolenz donated the footage to the Fermilab archives, along with a brief introduction to the material. Enjoy this glimpse of America’s particle physics lab in its infancy.

A baby bison was born at Fermilab on April 20, 2017. Here is that story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fermilab researchers Heidi Schellman and Ann Heinson take a whimsical look at the recent announcement of the discovery of the single top quark, by Fermilab's CDF and DZero experiments.

Dr. Yuji Yamazaki, a host of the Physics in Collision 2009 conference, and Dr. Thomas Muller, who will host the conference in 2010, talk about PIC 2009 in Kobe, Japan.

Anxious for the safe arrival of the long-awaited vessel that would house the MicroBooNE particle detector, scientists Bonnie Fleming and Gina Rameika decide not to sit around and wait for it. Instead, they get in a car and head into neighboring towns to look for a big, school-bus-sized object being hauled by a truck.

Scientists Rocky Kolb and Mike Turner recount the time they first proposed that Fermilab – dedicated to the study of the universe's smallest constituents — expand its program to include the stars, galaxies and the cosmos.

Collaboration members for the NOvA neutrino experiment held public tours of the future site of the NOvA detector facility the weekend of Minnesota's annual Governor's Fishing Opener. Aside from proximity of the site to the opener, held on Lake Kabetogama, does the experiment have anything to do with fishing? Maybe. Fishing guide Frank House and physicist Mark Messier explain. (Video by Kathryn Grim)

Harlem Shake filmed at Fermilab. Music by Baauer. Want in on the particle physics party? http://www.fnal.gov