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03/26/19
Fermilab

Muon g-2 begins second run

Over the next three months, scientists expect to make the world’s most precise measurement of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment, often expressed as the quantity g-2.

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Muons: Emblems of discovery

01/13/26
Diana Kwon

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics. 

08/01/07

Particle search on a shoestring

When Aaron Chou heard about an experiment in Italy that suggested the existence of an exotic particle as a candidate for dark matter, he was intrigued enough to go looking for it. His first stop: the Fermilab cafeteria.

08/01/07

SCI-Arc

Asked to design a lab and office complex, students found inspiration in particle collisions, gushers of data, and the shifty habits of neutrinos.

08/01/07

What, no popcorn?

Though scientists are skeptical of the suggested particle's existence, the results from Legnaro need to be checked, says Chou, who strayed from his usual area of research–cosmology– to help put the project together. "It's unlikely but not impossible.

Illustration of four people holding four corner of a dark energy blanket
08/01/07

Dark energy

Dark energy, the weirdest and most abundant stuff in the universe, is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up.

Four people pulling on four corners of a space blanket
08/01/07

Dark energy

Dark energy, the weirdest and most abundant stuff in the universe, is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up.

08/01/07

Professor Prairie

Particles and prairie. For many people, these words are synonymous with Fermilab.

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