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The article discusses that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun a new competition for the contract to run the country's only dedicated particle physics laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which failed an annual DOE performance review. The reasons include cost increases and delays in a huge new neutrino experiment. DOE has solicited letters of interest and will issue a request for formal proposals in the summer of 2023.

The article reports that physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) are resurrecting particle detector into tomblike pit and mentions that workers eased silver tanks shipping containers. Topics discussed include insulated sarcophagus while technicians mill about on top, U.S. physicists who chose the risky technology for neutrino experiment and lack of signs of physics at particle colliders.

The article presents the discussion on Muon g-2 experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) reporting a new measurement of the magnetism of the muon, a heavier and shortlived cousin of the electron. Topics include vertical magnetic field bending the trajectories around the ring and making the spin axis twirling or precessing like a wobbling gyroscope; and flux of high-energy positrons oscillating at a frequency revealing the extra magnetism.

The article explores on the fate of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. The facility is undergoing a financial crises wherein they some of their employees like David Mason, a particle physicist, requires to take one week every two months as unpaid leave. Such reduction in the employees wage is detrimental to them because some of them have families who depended on their salary. It reveals that the budget crunch leaves the future of the 40-year-old laboratory in an uncertain state. Discussed are the details of the facility's standing.

The article discusses the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's (Fermilab's) NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) experiment. The metamorphic behavior of neutrinos, which come in three types including the electron, the muon, and the tau, how understanding neutrino oscillations could help theorists explain how the infant universe produced so much matter and so little antimatter, and how NOvA compares to Japan’s T2K experiment are discussed.

The article discusses the debate over the use of lasers to examine whether the universe stores information similar to a hologram. Topics include the construction of an optical instrument called the Fermilab holometer by a small team of physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, the experiment's goal to test one interpretation of the holographic principle, which states that the amount of information that a region of space and time (spacetime) can hold is proportional to the region's surface area, and an explanation of the holographic principle via its portrayal in physicists Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity regarding spacetime. A diagram illustrating the holographic principle is presented.

The article discusses the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is the world's highest-energy atom smasher. CERN spent a year repairing the LHC as a result of various technical glitches resulting in a damaging electrical failure. Topics include an overview of how the LHC smashes atoms by accelerating particles to near light speed and the use of superconducting synchrotron magnets in place of conventional copper magnets. An overview of the similar problems with the Tevatron particle accelerator at the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Germany's Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) are presented. INSET: How to Make a Collider.

The article discusses the possible opposition of the U.S. Congress to the recommendation of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) for an international collaboration on the study of neutrinos for the future of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois. It also discusses its call for continued involvement in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, increased funding for detecting particles of dark matter, and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE).

The article looks at the state of particle physics research in the U.S., with particular focus on the Snowmass conference to be held in August 2013 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. It is noted that particle physics research spending by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) has declined by 15 percent over the previous ten years. The planned Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) project at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois is described.

The article discusses the impact of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) budget constraints on the future of a proposed 1.9 billion dollar flagship experiment, called the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. Topics include a request by DOE officials for a plan by Fermilab officials to construct the LBNE one piece at a time, the importance of the LBNE to both Fermilab and neutrino research, and a chart showing the original plan, what parts of the plan are affordable, and what parts of the plan are too expensive or not worth pursuing.

The article discusses an experiment that detected subatomic particles, called neutrinos, traveling faster than the speed of light and the implications for science if the results can not be replicated. The Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Racking Apparatus (OPERA) experiment is a collaboration between the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and physicists at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory. Topics include an overview of how the OPERA experiment was conducted, skepticism among physicists regarding the speed at which the neutrinos were recorded, and attempts by scientists with the MINOS experiment at the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to replicate the OPERA experiment.

The article discusses the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, which is scheduled to be shut down September 2011. The author notes that the Tevatron was replaced as the world's highest-energy collider, and the best probe of the structure of matter, by the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN's) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. A historical overview of some of the Tevatron's major contributions to physics research is presented, including the discovery of the top quark, the precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, and the study of jets of particles containing quarks, which elucidated the strong force that binds quarks.

The article discusses the future of particle physics research in the U.S. in the aftermath of the shutdown of the Tevatron particle collider located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). The recent history of the planning and budgeting of U.S. particle physics research by the U.S. Department of Energy is discussed, including delays and expenses that hinder implementation. A chart is presented on categories of future physics research and their leadership by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, Fermilab, and within the U.S. physics community.

The article discusses a debate whether the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, should continue to run the Fermilab's 25-year-old atom smasher, the Tevatron collider, for another 3 years. The extension, which would end in 2014, would allow Fermilab researchers to challenge their European rivals in detecting the Higgs boson. Topics include an overview of Higgs boson research and the economic aspects of extending the Tevatron, such as the necessity of stalling other projects to pay for Tevatron's operation including Fermilab's research project NOvA that will begin studying neutrinos in 2013.

The article discusses nuclear physics research using the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. As researchers there have not detected a nuclear particle called the Higgs boson, they want to operate the Tevatron for 3 additional years to allow them to do so. Fermilab co-spokesperson Dmitri Denisov is cited regarding plans to look for Higgs bosons in the range of 114 to 185 giga-electron volts.

The article discusses an accelerator that smashes exotic atoms called muons, which are radioactive particles heavier than electrons. According to the author, the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) has lost its status as the world’s highest-energy particle smasher and physicists there are hoping that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will fund their plans to design and construct a machine that could smash muons. Topics include an overview of the two types of particle colliders and how they work, such as those that smash protons-antiprotons, and what kind of challenges building a muon collider poses, such as generating and collecting muons.

The article discusses an announcement from officials at the European particle physics laboratory (CERN) that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will take longer to fix than previously expected. The world's highest energy particle smasher will not start up again before September 2009. This provides the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) with an opportunity to spot the Higgs boson, which is the last missing piece in the standard model of fundamental particles. Quotes are provided by University of Padua physicist Tommaso Dorigo and Fermilab's Rob Roser.

The article focuses on failure of a study by physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois published in the journal "Science" to find the sign of a holographic universe based on the string theory. Topics discussed include views of Sabine Hossenfelder, theorist at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, on the failure, theorist Yanbei Chen on efforts of theorist Craig Hogan behind the study and holographic principle emerging from the theory of black holes.

The article reports that the 2008 U.S. government aid program supports the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) by focusing on jobs before research. Lobbyist Michael Lubell and congressional staff gave emphasis on the importance of using the budget on workforce as well. The report shows that the there was a high employee layoff in December 2008 due to small budget increase which only ended in late May 2008 after a donor gave $5 million to the University of Chicago to be spent in Fermilab. An alleged political benefits of the laboratory is also presented. Furthermore, high-energy physics gets $32 million to be spent at Fermilab while the ITER, a fusion reactor experiment being built in France, gets a $15-5 million slice on the supplemental.

The article reports on Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's plan to lay off seven percent of their staff due to decreased funding. According to the report, officials of the particle physics laboratory submitted their final plans for the layoffs to the U.S. Department of Energy on April 25, 2008. The layoff will cease about 140 scientists, engineers, technicians and other staff of the research laboratory. Cuts were forced when the U.S. Congress passed a budget for fiscal year 2008 that slashed the lab's funding from a requested $372 million to $320 million, $22 million less than it had received the previous year.

The article focuses on an experiment conducted by a team of physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) that aims to confirm the existence of a new particle in Switzerland. The positive results of the experiment are considered to be revolutionary, thus scientists are aiming to prove first the supposed Polarizzazione del Vuoto con LASer particle. Fermilab researchers performed the experiment by shining a laser through a high technology mirror. An extra superconducting magnet from Fermilab's Tevatron collider is likewise used to supply the testing field. Giovanni Cantatore, physicist at the University of Trieste in Italy, admits the less chances of their economical experiment, but expresses excitement over its possible outcome.

The article discusses the failure on the design of Large Hadron Collider. The result of a key test conducted at the European particle physics laboratory suggested the possibility of a delayed operation of the mammoth subterranean machine near Geneva, Switzerland to redesign the collider. The test manifested damaged magnets when the researchers pressurized its casing to 25 times atmospheric pressure. This technical problem needs to be repaired to meet the intended launching date of the project. Stephen Holmes of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) asserts that the organization has arranged a schedule with CERN to work on the necessary reconstruction.

The article discusses how U.S. physicists could better realize their ambitions for the proposed Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) to be conducted at the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. Topics include Europe's commitment to supporting the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Switzerland, the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), and financial contributions to LBNE from Europe.

The article looks at attempts to finance particle physics research in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, after the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rejected its 1.9 billion dollar budget. The LBNE project was reconfigured to include collaboration with researchers in India and Europe. The plan calls for the building of a particle detector to research the charge conjugation parity (CP) violation phenomenon.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has stopped the development of a flagship project at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Femiilab) in Batavia, llinoism, citing budget constraints. Topic include an overview of the project, called Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), and concerns by U.S. physicist that a delay of LBNE will enable Japanese physicists to do a similar experiment first.

The article discusses data from an atom smasher in the U.S., called the Tevatron, located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, that hints at the detention of Higgs bosons, which are subatomic particles that hold the key to how all particles get their mass. Reportedly the hints correlate with those seen by researchers working with Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Differences in data between the Tevatron and the LHC are discussed.

The article discusses research in high-energy physics and particle physics being conducted by a 700-member team at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) using a so-called CDF particle detector and the Tevatron particle accelerator. Research on and findings regarding particles called W bosons and particles that divide into sprays of particles called jets is discussed.

The article discusses a decision to cancel further research on isolating the Higgs particle, a particle conceptualized in high-energy physics, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). Because of funding constraints, the U.S. Department of Energy is said to have ended operation of the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab in fiscal year 2011.

The article discusses research using the Tevatron particle collider at the Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab). Experimentation with B meson creation showed significant asymmetry between matter and antimatter. Fermilab theorist Chris Quigg is cited regarding this laboratory example of charge-parity (CP) violation.

The article discusses physics research efforts to observe the so-called Higgs boson, a particle thought to be an important aspect of theories on the origin of mass. Despite a slowdown in the research schedule planned for the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the article indicates that Fermilab physicists have not exhibited a zealous interest in operating their Tevatron collider on an accelerated schedule.

The article discusses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CREN) in Switzerland. Officials at CERN have reduced the amount of energy used to smash atoms in an effort to prevent overloading the LHC's faulty electrical connections which are made from thousands of superconducting magnets. An overview of the Tevatron collider located at the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, which is the LHC's rival, is presented.

The article discusses about the state of particle physics in the United States, following the impending closure of some colliders in the United States. According to the article, back in February 2008, the CESR collider of the Cornell University had been shutdown and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, California will close the PEP-II collider by April 7, 2008. This would make the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois as the remaining particle smasher in the United States. Particle physicists hope are thinking of how can they continue their work and hopes that they would be able to host the proposed International Linear Collider at Fermilab despite budget cuts from the congress and competition from Europe and Japan.

The article reports on the effects of the 2008 budget cut at the United States' Department of Energy to its particle physics program called the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Fermilab and SLAC will have to lay off hundreds of their employees because of the unexpected budget cut. SLAC will also have to shut down PEP-II collider in March 2008 while Fermilab will shut down their Tevatron collider in Batavia, Illinois to cope with the 2008 budget.

The article reports that Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, has proposed to construct a proton accelerator using parts that meet all the design specifications for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). According to Fermilab Director Pier Oddone, construction of proton accelerator is a backup plan if an international agreement is not reached upon the ILC. Though physicists hope to start building the ILC as early as 2012 and finish it by 2019, Raymond Orbach, under secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has warned that the ILC might not be completed until the mid-2020s or later.

The article reports on the announcement made by the European laboratory CERN on the delay of the world's highest-energy atom smasher called the Large Hardon Collider (LHC) which is supposed to start in November 2007. It is stated that the assembly of the $3.8 billion accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland was more than a month behind. Due to the LHC's start-up delayed until April 2008, U.S. physicists discussed at a meeting at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. They tackled whether to run the laboratory's venerable Tevatron collider through 2010. But, in 2006, physicists worried that the Tevatron would shut down before 2009.

The article reports on the decision of Raymond Orbach, U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science, to add 5 years or more to the timeline of building the International Linear Collider (ILC) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. In bridging the projected gap, Orback requested the government's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel to establish a program of smaller projects from researchers whose experiments had been cut. During the panel meeting in Washington, D.C., Orbach mentions that research and development and engineering for the ILC will be continued.

This article reports that researchers around the globe fear that if U.S. particle physics withers, so will the entire field. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) asked physicists to consider which of two existing particle colliders they would rather shut down early to save money. Physicists got a shock in February, when DOE nixed BTeV, a $140 million experiment that would have run at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Using beams from Fermilab's Tevatron collider, BTeV would have studied bottom quarks, heavier, unstable cousins of the down quarks found in protons and neutrons. BTeV researchers were expecting to get the final go-ahead for construction. Meanwhile, researchers in Europe are assembling the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scheduled to start up in 2007, the $7.7 billion machine might produce the long-sought Higgs boson, the particle thought to give others their mass. But particle physicists from Europe and Asia aren't celebrating the passing of the torch from the United States.