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We’re thrilled to announce that the first results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics! #gminus2
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#OnThisDay in 2000, Fermilab physicists announced the first direct evidence for the Tau neutrino! Although earlier experiments had produced convincing indirect evidence for the particle’s existence, no one had directly observed the tau neutrino before Fermilab's DONUT experiment!
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We're excited to announce that Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment has achieved the world's most precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon!
🔗 Read more: news.fnal.gov/2023/08/muon-g…
#muon #gminus2 #physics #fermilab @ENERGY @doescience
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The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab sees fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. These results confirm an earlier experiment performed at @BrookhavenLab. #gminus2
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DUNE scientists will study the behavior of particles known as neutrinos to solve some of the biggest questions about our universe. Why is our universe composed of matter? How does an exploding star create a black hole? Are neutrinos connected to dark matter? #DUNEscience
In The Moment learn about the work that's been done on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and what it'll take to start the experiment.
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Fermilab’s @sqmscenter is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, focusing on superconducting #quantum systems. IBM plans to join SQMS to further accelerate technologies and applications of superconducting quantum systems and expand workforce development programs.
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The Consul General of Switzerland in Chicago visited Fermilab and toured the Integrated Engineering Center, the new lab space that will assemble and test modules produced in Switzerland for the @DUNEScience near detector. #DUNEscience #neutrino #physics
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Fermilab Fellow Jennifer Ngadiuba's contributions to particle physics were recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, who awarded Ngadiuba the 2024 Early Career Scientist Prize in Particle Physics. Congratulations! 🙌
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What a spot of joy! Fermilab's first baby bison of 2021 arrived this morning! Welcome, little friend! #NationalMammal
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Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe.
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The Muon g-2 experiment will announce new results in a scientific seminar on August 10! 🧲💫👀
The seminar will be streamed on the Fermilab YouTube channel. For more information visit: muon-g-2.fnal.gov
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The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos! 🙌
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We’re deeply saddened to share that Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate, former Fermilab director, and passionate advocate of science education, died today at age 96.
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Physicists finally nail the proton’s size: quantamagazine.org/physicist…
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We're less than 24 hours away from learning the first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab! #gminus2
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The strong evidence that muons deviate from the Standard Model calculation might hint at exciting new physics. Muons act as a window into the subatomic world and could be interacting with yet undiscovered particles or forces. #gminus2
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The combined results from Fermilab and Brookhaven show a difference with theory at a significance of 4.2 sigma. The chance that the results are a statistical fluctuation is about 1 in 40,000. #gminus2
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The CDF collaboration at Fermilab announces the most precise ever measurement of the #Wboson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model:
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Did you know that over the past 10 years, the Large Hadron Collider has found more than 50 new particles? home.cern/news/news/physics/…
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bold move. and we like it. if this tweet gets 200 likes, you get the neutrinos. #FaintLeeNus
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ICYMI: Evidence found for a new fundamental particle, via @QuantaMagazine:
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It's our birthday! 🎂 🎂 🎂
Today Fermilab turns 54. We've come a long way since the lab's earliest employees moved into their first offices on this day in 1967.
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Physics fans, we are overwhelmed by your excitement. You're breaking all of our pages and streams like they're the Standard Model! We're working on it - thanks for your patience. The talk is also being recorded and will be available if you can't get to it right now. #gminus2
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Particle physics might seem too complex for young children, but educators are finding enthusiasm and understanding even among the Sesame Street set.
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If you’re fascinated by the weird world of particles—and who isn’t?—check out the brand new All Things Neutrino website. Learn what neutrinos are, where they come from, and why scientists can’t stop studying them: neutrinos.fnal.gov/ #science #physics
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Fascinating results from the @MicroBooNE experiment today! Four complementary analyses show no signs of a theorized fourth kind of neutrino known as the #SterileNeutrino.
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#ICYMI: IBM plans to join Fermilab’s @sqmscenter to further accelerate critical technologies and applications of superconducting quantum systems and expand #quantum workforce development programs.
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We're excited to share that the next director of Fermilab will be physicist Lia Merminga!
@LiaMerminga
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We're thrilled to share the final result from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab! 🧲🤩 This long-awaited value will be the world’s most precise measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly for many years to come. 🙌
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Today two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced a discovery that finally links the two heaviest known particles: the top quark and the Higgs boson.
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90 years ago today, Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of a new particle: the neutrino! You can read Pauli's letter here: symmetrymagazine.org/article…
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It’s been a long time coming! The Muon g-2 collaboration will present the results from the experiment’s first run at Fermilab in a special seminar on April 7 at 10am Central. theory.fnal.gov/events/event…
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Physics by the numbers! Here are some stats from 10 years of physics at the Large Hadron Collider: symmetrymagazine.org/article…
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The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will unveil their final result on the muon's magnetic moment in a scientific seminar on June 3, 2025. 💫🧲👀
Learn more: muon-g-2.fnal.gov #gminus2
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Happy Higgsiversary! On this day in 2012, researchers announced the discovery of the #HiggsBoson.
What questions do we still have about this fascinating particle?
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Congratulations to all involved in taking the first-ever picture of a black hole! #EHTBlackHole
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Want to learn more about today’s landmark result announced by the Muon g-2 collaboration? You can tune in to the scientific seminar happening now: piped.video/watch?v=81PfYnpu…
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The Ambassador of Italy to the US, Mariangela Zappia, toured Fermilab this week. The visit included an overview of the @CMSExperiment and LHC. Fermilab will contribute 16 ultra-strong magnets to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Project @CERN. #physics @ItalyinUS
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It's the best time of the year - baby bison time! Fermilab's first baby bison of 2019 was born on Saturday. We're expecting between 12 and 14 new calves this spring - come meet them! #BisonWatch2019
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Everyone is buzzing about the first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab! Want to get a better understanding of what it all means? Register for our free virtual public talk on April 17: events.fnal.gov/arts-lecture…
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Fermilab's new experimental result for muon g-2 differs from the 2020 theoretical prediction for muon #gminus2 at a significance of 5 sigma. An updated prediction considering all available data will likely yield a smaller and less significant discrepancy. muon-g-2.fnal.gov/result2023…
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What would you call our new baby bison? Tweet us with #BisonNaming. Please, no Bison McBisonface.
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Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment will unveil a new, more precise result on August 10! 🧲✨
You can tune into the live scientific seminar on the Fermilab YouTube channel at 10 a.m. CT ⤵️
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Today Fermilab and @CERN signed a memorandum of understanding for the high-luminosity upgrade to the LHC! This MOU highlights the collaboration between @BerkeleyLab, @BrookhavenLab & Fermilab for the US contribution to the HL-LHC. Exciting times for high energy physics research!
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With 14 shovels of dirt, a new era of international particle physics research officially begins! #buildLBNF
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Hints of anomalous activity in heavy isotopes could be clues to new physics:
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We're proud to do cutting-edge research here at Flerimio Finiaribify.
Here's #dalle generating "The Fermilab logo". It has heard of Fermilab but has apparently never seen the logo.
ALT A huge variety of geometrical atom, globe, ray, pinwheel, wind turbine, logos. They look vaguely scientific. Text reads stuff like "Flemrrri" and "Elefiarai" and "Feirmairir"
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Quantum computing meets particle physics for LHC data analysis: physicsworld.com/a/quantum-c…
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"Five-photon Feynman diagrams look less like a traditional particle physics schematic and more like abstract art." symmetrymagazine.org/article…
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Tomorrow there will be an @NSF press conference on the first results from the Event Horizon Telescope project, a global network of telescopes that has been working to capture the first-ever image of a black hole. Brush up on your black hole knowledge: symmetrymagazine.org/article…
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Congratulations to Fermilab scientist Patty McBride, who has been elected the next spokesperson for the @CMSExperiment at @CERN! She'll lead the enormous international collaboration beginning this fall.
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We're thrilled to share that Fermilab will lead one of five new national #QuantumCenters announced today! Here's what's planned for the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center at Fermilab (#SQMSCenter): news.fnal.gov/2020/08/fermil…
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The Large Hadron Collider at @CERN produces around 40 million collisions per second. Capturing all those events is impossible, so the electronics have to make some tough choices.
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In its first year of operation, in 2018, the Fermilab #gminus2 experiment collected more data than all prior muon g-factor experiments combined. The first experimental run collected and analyzed more than 8 billion muons.
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Want to teach yourself some particle physics? We made a hub where you can learn about All Things Neutrino! Find out how these little particles are part of some of the biggest mysteries in physics: neutrinos.fnal.gov/
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On March 2, 1995, the #TopQuark discovery at Fermilab was announced by scientists on the CDF and DZero collaborations. We ask two members of the collaborations to reflect on this groundbreaking moment in particle physics.
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It’s our 57th birthday! 🎂 🎊 #OnThisDay in 1967, the lab's earliest employees moved into their first offices.
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Today’s result is an amazing achievement. Both the theoretical and experimental efforts required tremendous collaboration, brain power, and years of hard work. #gminus2
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Mathematician to know: Emmy Noether:
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It’s our 56th birthday! 🎂 🎊 #OnThisDay in 1967, the lab's earliest employees moved into their first offices.
Want to learn more about Fermilab's history? Check out the great resources we pulled together for our 50th anniversary. ⤵️
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New computing algorithms expand the boundaries of a quantum future: news.fnal.gov/2021/04/new-co…
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It's a momentous day! The first of the two ICARUS detector modules has been successfully lowered into its new home, completing its long #IcarusTrip (by way of @INFN_ and @CERN). #science!
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Welcome to the first baby bison of the year born at Fermilab!
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Unleash your inner physicist! Here's how to build a particle detector at home: symmetrymagazine.org/article…
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Four physicists share their experiences dealing with major setbacks, trauma, mental health issues, and toxic work environments:
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Thanks to everyone who tuned in to yesterday's Muon g-2 announcement! You can find the recording of the scientific seminar and the results overview video on Fermilab’s YouTube channel: piped.video/fermilab
#gminus2
We're excited to announce that Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment has achieved the world's most precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon!
🔗 Read more: news.fnal.gov/2023/08/muon-g…
#muon #gminus2 #physics #fermilab @ENERGY @doescience
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The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC and the DØ collaboration at Fermilab have announced the discovery of the odderon – an elusive state of three fundamental particles called gluons that was predicted almost 50 years ago. news.fnal.gov/2021/03/totem-… @CERN
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Beautiful photos from @CERN show the inside of the protoDUNE detector, one of the steps on the way to @DUNEScience. #physics #science
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What does it take to envision and build a seemingly impossible particle accelerator?
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The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens. 🙌
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Looking to learn some particle physics? Check out Fermilab's curated article collections, video playlists, and interactive activities: news.fnal.gov/2020/04/partic…
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Quantum bits acting as particle detectors offer a potential way to solve one of the great mysteries in physics: the nature of #DarkMatter. news.fnal.gov/2021/04/sensit…
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Collection: Physics & Art: symmetrymagazine.org/collect… #STEAM
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The Department of @ENERGY has given approval for the U.S. High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project to move full-speed-ahead in building and delivering cutting-edge magnets and accelerator cavities for the LHC. news.fnal.gov/2021/02/hl-lhc…
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An enormous congratulations to all the Muon g-2 collaborators on this incredible result! #gminus2
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Fermilab scientists publish quantum computing course for high school students:
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100 years ago today, Nobel laureate Leon Lederman was born. He served as Fermilab's second director from 1979-1989. Find out more about his #physics legacy on our history pages: history.fnal.gov/historical/…
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Neutrinos don’t seem to get their mass in the same way as other particles in the Standard Model.
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You keep using that physics word - I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Physicists reflect on the Higgs discovery ten years later: interactions.org/qd2022
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Tests start at @CERN for large-scale prototype of new technology to detect neutrinos: news.fnal.gov/2019/10/tests-…
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Making a gingerbread house? Why not a gingerbread lab! Fermilab engineering physicist Cindy Joe made this gingerbread Wilson Hall last holiday season.
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Later this decade, the Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded to the High-Luminosity LHC. Here's what “luminosity” means in particle physics:
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ICYMI: Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen?
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New accelerator at Fermilab approved for construction start:
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And there’s more data to come! Data analysis on the second and third runs of the experiment is under way, the fourth run is ongoing, and a fifth run is planned. #gminus2
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Exciting milestone! After years of preparation, the first neutrinos have been observed by the Short-Baseline Near Detector collaboration at Fermilab. 🙌
#neutrino @sbnddetector #physics
🔗 Read more: news.fnal.gov/2024/09/first-…
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We're less than 24 hours away from Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment announcing their new result! The scientific seminar will be streamed on the Fermilab YouTube channel starting at 10 a.m. CT ⤵️ piped.video/fermilab
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🙌 Happy #WorldEngineeringDay!
Engineers are essential to Fermilab's vision which is to solve the mysteries of matter, energy, space and time for the benefit of all.
#engineer #physics #experiment
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ICYMI: Fermilab has collected lots of resources for learning about particle physics at home: news.fnal.gov/2020/04/partic… #STEM #STEMrising
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Exciting news: Fermilab's first baby bison of the year has arrived!🦬 🎊
The lab's iconic bison herd welcomed its newest (and most adorable) member yesterday, April 13!
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Want to be at the moment of the Muon g-2 unblinding? This video breaking down the new results features the moment researchers first revealed their data. #gminus2
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Congratulations to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez, who have won the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics for their work on #BlackHoles! Learn more about these fascinating physics phenomena: symmetrymagazine.org/article…
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ICYMI: Physicists have discovered the odderon, a particle first predicted 50 years ago!
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