News
Fermilab welcomes Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and celebrates nearly four decades of partnership and cooperation.
Lab 2 is brand new, thanks to a recently completed renovation. Formerly an apprentice machine shop, the Village building now boasts a class 10 cleanroom and plenty of space for assembling SRF cryomodules.
PIP-II: Renewing Fermilab’s accelerator complex
The Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II, is a proposed project to improve Fermilab’s particle accelerator complex with a major hardware overhaul and a powerful boost in its capabilities.
Members of Fermilab’s TD recently achieved a record-high quality factor with a fully dressed cavity for a SLAC-headed project, Linac Coherent Light Source II.
Honors
Checchin’s work focuses on better understanding of the gradient limitation of a superconducting accelerating cavity.
Fermilab scientists Sam Posen (TD), Jen Raaf (ND) win prestigious DOE Early Career Research Awards
Each will receive $2.5 million, distributed over five years, to advance their work at the laboratory.
Physics Graduate Students Receive Recognition for Breakthrough Accelerator Technology
The research of graduate students Mattia Checchin and Martina Martinello has led to multiple invited talks at international conferences as well as prizes.
Sam Posen is awarded the 2016 Hogil Kim Prize
Sam Posen of the TD is awarded the 2016 Hogil Kim Prize for a recent, significant, original contribution to the accelerator field.
Scientists Anna Grassellino and Vladimir Shiltsev have been elected respectively member-at-large and vice chair for the American Physical Society Division of the Physics of Beams executive committee.
David Harding receives 2015 Director’s Award
David Harding, deputy head of the TD, receives the Director’s Award for his outstanding efforts in educating K-12 students about physics.
Graduate student Mattia Checchin, who is conducting his thesis research at Fermilab, earned first prize at a poster session at the recent international SRF 2015 conference.