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Fermilab Users' Meeting
Physics results! Awards! Posters! Public lecture! The future! And more... The annual Fermilab Users' Meeting took place June 3 and 4.
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Charm Quark
The charm quark is one of six quarks that, along with leptons, form the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. It is hundreds of times more massive than the up and down quarks that make up protons and neutrons.
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Recovery Act funding fuels Fermilab projects
Fermilab has created a new Web site to provide citizens with clear and accurate information about how Fermilab is using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more to find out about the immediate benefits for our neighbors and our nation.
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The Benefits of Particle Physics
From the earliest days of high energy physics in the 1930s to the latest 21st-century initiatives, the bold and innovative ideas and technologies of particle physics have entered the mainstream of society to transform the way we live.
Fermilab Today
- July 2, 2009
Construction crews began digging at the future site of the NOvA detector facility in Ash River, Minn., on June 1. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided funds for the civil construction project.
symmetry
- May 2009
- Commentary: Pier Oddone
- Deconstruction: Standard Model Discoveries
- A New Leader for CERN
- Credit Where Credit is Due
- Explain it in 60 seconds: Charm Quark
The U.S. has contributed $531 million to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, located in Europe. From the LHC Remote Operations Center at Fermilab, U.S. scientists will participate in the startup of the machine.
More than 900 scientists from the U.S. work on the CMS experiment at the LHC. Sifting through proton-proton collisions, scientists may find signs for dark matter particles, new subatomic forces and perhaps extra dimensions of space.
Angels & Demons Lecture Nights: The Science Revealed
With the release of the blockbuster film, Angels & Demons, scientific institutions worldwide have hosted public lectures about the real science behind the movie. To see videos or listen to mp3s of lectures or to see lecture slides, click here.
CDF observes exotic relative of proton
The CDF experiment at Fermilab observed a new particle, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark. It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton.
Discovery of rare single top quarks
Scientists of Fermilab's CDF and DZero collaborations observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks, a discovery significant in the Higgs boson search.
DZero scientists refine W mass measurement
Scientists of Fermilab's DZero collaboration have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a single experiment.
Particle oddball surprises CDF physicists
Scientists of Fermilab's CDF experiment found evidence of an unexpected particle, Y(4140), with curious characteristics that may reveal new ways quarks can combine to form matter.
P5 report
The Particle Physics Project Prioritzation Panel proposes a strategic plan for the next 10 years to address the central questions in particle physics using a range of tools and techniques at three interrelated frontiers.
Physics at Fermilab
Learn how Fermilab is paving the way for the next particle physics discovery.
Result of the Week
At Fermilab’s Tevatron Collider, physicists have been telling the story of their research results in weekly installments for more than five years.