Batavia, Ill.—Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today that the laboratory has started phase II of the construction of a pioneering facility to advance a technology that will be critical to the next generation of particle accelerators. The new facility, which will occupy three buildings and host a 460-foot-long test […]
From Fermilab Today: Fine-tuning the instruments of acceleration
Achieving resonance in a scientific collaboration is no small feat, but scientists at Fermilab, DESY and KEK have come together to do exactly that: They’ve improved the mechanism that keeps superconducting radio frequency cavities in tune. Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division and DESY staff, with financial assistance from KEK, recently built four new tuning machines […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab-designed beam position monitors go to KEK
Members of the beam position monitoring collaboration for KEK’s Accelerator Test Facility. First row from left: Brian Fellenz, Andrea Saewert, Manfred Wendt and Eliana Gianfelice. Second row from left: Duane Voy, Dehong Zhang, Charlie Briegel, John Van Bogaert, Alexey Semenov and Nathan Eddy. Not pictured: Peter Prieto. Last May, in only two weeks’ time, a […]
From Fermilab Today: Recovery Act funds keep Fermilab wired
Electrician Stan Kramer works at New Muon Laboratory. Electrician Stan Kramer spent the better part of a recession-hit 2009 unemployed. Then, last March, he received the call from Arlington Electric that he was needed for a newly created job at Fermilab. Fermilab hired Arlington to do electrical work at the New Muon Laboratory with funds […]
From Fermilab: Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson
Batavia, Ill.—New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results today (July 26) at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule […]
From Fermilab Today: AD & TD collaborate on first cryomodule for new facility
It is perhaps fitting that the New Muon Lab, a long, low concrete affair facing open fields, sits facing the northern edge of Fermilab’s property. The hangar-sized building is a busy place these days, home to the laboratory’s Superconducting Radio Frequency Test Facility, and bustling with the work that keeps Fermilab pushing the boundary of […]
From Fermilab Today: Sharing silicon know-how with Chinese partners
With the quiet, deft manner of a jeweler showing his wares, physicist Cai Xiao opened a black box that, in a James Bond movie, might hold a stash of diamonds. This one held something every bit as precious. Inside lay a small, green circuit board topped with three shining silver strips: a silicon detector. For […]
From Fermilab Today: SRF cryogenics system proves its ‘cool’ factor
Fermilab has passed another major milestone on the road to becoming an expert in superconducting radio frequency technology. In early October, in the first test of the cryogenics system at the RF-unit test facility at the New Muon Lab, Fermilab engineers cooled a superconducting capture cavity to 2 degrees Kelvin, or minus 271 degrees Celsius. […]
From Fermilab Today: ARRA funds SRF technology, U.S. industry to benefit
In August, the Department of Energy announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide Fermilab with $52.7 million to test and develop superconducting radio frequency cavities, a key technology for next-generation accelerators and the future of particle physics. The funds provide a significant boost to the SRF program at Fermilab, allowing the laboratory […]
A grand tuning voyage
Two cavity tuning machines on their way to Fermilab
When groups from different countries work together the usual procedure is to send the people to the machines they are working on. A team of engineers and technicians from DESY, Fermilab and KEK decided to do the exact opposite: they sent the machines to the people. On 3 August two machines constructed at DESY embarked […]