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The most precise single measurement of the top quark has revealed a mass with a precision of better than one percent. A total of 630 selected top quark pairs in 4.3 inverse femtobarns of collected data yield the final result for the top mass: m_top = 172.64 +- 1.58 GeV/c2.
The US Department of Energy has provided Fermilab with $9 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a long-baseline neutrino project. The laboratory is currently spending the funds on preliminary design.
"This is an opportunity to send money into the technical community outside the laboratory," said Regina Rameika, a Fermilab scientist who is coordinating the design efforts.
Rumors spread like wild fire for wee little grad students (1st and 2nd years) and one thing we would chat about around the chalk board was that grad students for some “unknown” reason disappear during their third year in grad school. Sometimes they return, sometimes they don’t… and they’re never seen or heard from again. [...]
In the world of superconducting technology, when you need to cool, you really need to cool. In August, Jefferson Lab asked Fermilab to pack up its backup turbine for its cryogenics refrigeration unit and send it halfway across the country.
One of the advantages of being an experimental particle physicist is that we somehow enjoy certain flexibility in our work schedule. It is not unusual at all to work very long hours even during weekends for extended periods of time (graduate students can tell you all about it), or to literally run on coffee (or [...]
Figuring out how to provide the proposed International Linear Collider accelerator with the power needed to drive the machine's high-energy particle collisions calls for a creative technological solutions.
FlashForward premieres tonight on the ABC television network. Our set of links will help you separate Flashforward fact from fiction.
Fermilab recently launched a new web site describing the idea of a muon collider. Why think about a future collider when we haven’t even started using the LHC yet? Because it takes a really long time to design and build one. The LHC was conceived a few decades ago, and the LHC [...]
The global demand for electricity is likely to double by 2030. But could particle accelerator technology help solve the world energy crisis? According to scientists, accelerators might make it possible to use an alternative fuel to produce nuclear energy.
Doing a quick poll of graduate students in our department showed the following:
Atomic Physics: 5/10 grad students are married (2 of those have kids)
Particle Physics (CMS group): 1/10 grad students are married (none of those have kids)
Most likely, this difference is because “Atomic” physics involves small, table-top experiments, while “Particle” physics involves large experiments located [...]
This Thursday, the ABC television network will premiere FlashForward, a drama series based on Robert J. Sawyer’s science-fiction novel of the same name. In an e-mail interview with symmetry, Sawyer discussed why he chose the LHC for the plot of Flashforward, how he relates the search for the Higgs to dinosaurs, and which physics laboratory is next in line for the science-fiction treatment.
My close friends (and now blog enthusiasts) are familiar with my favorite part of a pair of pajamas. They’re a pair of green flannel pants with monkey faces on them, lovingly referred to as my “monkey pants”. They look something like this:
Upon arriving home from work - most typically in the winter, I’ll relax by [...]
One of the things I did at Dragon*Con a couple of weeks ago was to give a talk on the physics of the
Comment vas-tu? Je vais bien!
You’re driving along in France and suddenly you see this sign on the right side of the road - would you know what to do? Are you comfortable enough with French to get around safely?
If you are planning to visit CERN or the Geneva area I recommend learning at least a [...]
Howdy! LHC fans, and welcome to my US LHC blog area. It is a great pleasure for me to have this opportunity to communicate what we are up to at the LHC from a more personal perspective. I hope you enjoy it!!
This is my first post and so I thought it was a good idea [...]
What’s almost as hot as the LHC? Fermilab’s particle accelerator, the not-quite-so world
El gigantesco acelerador LHC está arreglado lo suficiente para poder empezar a funcionar en noviembr
Para el no experto puede parecer sorprendente, pero la precisión obtenida por el LEP II para la mas