Anna Grassellino Appointed to DOE Office of Science Advisory Committee
Anna Grassellino, Fermilab’s chief technology officer and associate laboratory director, has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC). She will also chair SCAC’s quantum subcommittee, guiding national efforts toward DOE’s 2028 target for error‑corrected quantum computers. The subcommittee will map the quantum information science landscape and foster partnerships across labs, industry, and federal agencies. Grassellino’s leadership builds on her work directing the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a key DOE quantum research hub.
Fermilab Teams up with NIU to Launch Quantum Science Program
Fermilab and Northern Illinois University have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to launch a Master of Science in Physics with a specialization in quantum science and technology. The inaugural cohort will start classes in fall 2026, with research...
A Minute with Jacopo Bernardini
Jacopo Bernardini, a mechanical engineer in Fermilab’s Applied Physics and Superconducting Technology Directorate, was promoted to level‑3 manager for the 650‑MHz cryomodule system within the PIP‑II accelerator upgrade. He oversees delivery of 13 low‑beta and high‑beta cryomodules and serves as...
Nearly 1,600 Meters Below the Surface of South Dakota, Workers Removed 800,000 Tons of Rock and Built Two Giant Caverns...
Workers at the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota excavated 800,000 tons of rock to create two caverns 20 m wide, 28 m high and 150 m long, 1,520 m underground. The caverns will host the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), the world’s largest...
Yao Lu Receives Early Career Award to Harness Quantum Entanglement for Dark Matter Search
Fermilab associate scientist Yao Lu has received a 2025 Department of Energy Early Career Award to fund his work on a scalable superconducting cavity array that uses quantum entanglement to search for dark‑matter candidates such as the dark photon. The...
“Do We Understand All Of Nature’s Basic Ingredients?” Muon Experiment Wins Breakthrough Prize for Efforts to Advance the Standard Model...
The Muon g‑2 Collaboration, spanning CERN, Brookhaven and Fermilab, received the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and a $3 million award. The team reported a magnetic‑moment measurement with 127 parts‑per‑billion precision, beating its 140 ppb goal. The result aligns with lattice‑QCD calculations but...
Fermilab Experiment Receives Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, worth $3 million, was awarded to the Muon g‑2 experiment, recognizing three generations of work that began at CERN, moved to Brookhaven, and culminated at Fermilab. Fermilab led the final stage, delivering the world’s...
Fermilab Researchers Develop AI Tools to Advance the Future of Particle Accelerators
Fermilab is leading the Multi‑Office Accelerator Team (MOAT) to embed artificial intelligence throughout the lifecycle of particle accelerators. The effort, part of DOE’s Genesis Mission and the Transformational AI Models Consortium, unites seven national labs to develop AI agents, digital...
ICARUS Experiment Marks Major Milestone in First Neutrino Science Results
The ICARUS collaboration released its first neutrino‑oscillation results, finding no muon‑neutrino disappearance in data collected from 2022‑23 at Fermilab’s Short Baseline Neutrino program. The analysis highlighted rigorous uncertainty treatment, confirming the liquid‑argon detector’s high data quality and the maturity of...
Northwestern and Fermilab Quantum Data Helps Build a New AI Benchmark for Quantum Calibration with NVIDIA Ising Open Models
Northwestern researchers at Fermilab's NEXUS underground lab have released a high‑dimensional superconducting qubit dataset on the American Science Cloud, marking the first globally accessible charge‑jump measurements. The data enabled NVIDIA to train its new Ising Calibration vision‑language model, which can...
Largest Neutrino Experiment in the US Wins Project of the Year Award
The Long‑Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (LBNF/DUNE) at the Sanford Underground Research Facility earned the 2026 Underground Construction Association Project of the Year award in the $100‑$500 million category. The project completed three cavernous underground halls—each 65 ft wide, 92 ft tall...
New Fundamental Physics Measurement Deepens Quantum Mystery
Physicists at CERN's CMS experiment have released a new measurement of the W boson mass, 80,360.2 ± 9.9 MeV, which aligns with Standard Model predictions. The result matches the precision of the 2022 CDF measurement that had suggested a significant deviation, but it...
Steven Gardiner Receives Early Career Award to Advance Low-Energy Neutrino Research at DUNE
Steven Gardiner, a Fermilab physicist with a background in neutron simulations, has been awarded a 2025 Department of Energy Early Career Award to explore low‑energy neutrino research at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). While DUNE was originally designed for...
Scientists Commission Crucial Subsystem in Pioneering Particle Physics Experiment
Argonne National Laboratory has commissioned the Cosmic Ray Veto (CRV) detector, a critical subsystem for Fermilab’s Mu2e experiment. The 83‑module, 60‑ton CRV filters out cosmic‑ray muons, meeting a 99.99% rejection requirement. Its successful testing satisfies a key DOE milestone and...
New Electronically Tunable Quantum Detector Speeds up Search for Dark Matter
Physicists at Fermilab, the University of Chicago, Stanford and NYU have built an electronically‑tunable quantum detector that uses a flux‑controlled SQUID inside a microwave cavity to hunt for dark‑photon dark matter. The device scanned a 22 MHz band in three days,...