Helen Edwards Summer Internship A ten-week summer internship for students majoring in physics and engineering at universities in Europe.
Lee Teng Internship Accelerator science and engineering internship designed to attract undergraduate students to the exciting and challenging world of particle accelerator physics and technology. Summer Internships in Science and Technology SIST Undergraduate sophomores and juniors majoring in physics, engineering mechanical, electrical and computer , materials science, mathematics and computer science conduct research with Fermilab scientists and engineers.
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship SULI Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, undergraduate physics or engineering majors work with scientists or engineers on projects at the frontier of particle physics research. VetTech Internship Program Military veterans provide routine technical support for an assigned experiment or support group. View Undergraduate Programs summary chart. Computational Science Graduate Fellowship CSGF CSGF provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems.
Fermilab Computational Science Internship Exciting opportunity to use cutting-edge tools and technology in the fields cybersecurity, cloud-based distributed computing, big data, high-performance computing, machine learning, and quantum computing.
NSF Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship Summer internship for graduate students in mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics who plan to pursue a career in and outside of academia.
Italian Student Program This program offers highly motivated Italian physics and engineering university students a summer research internship. View Graduate Programs summary chart. However, producing and maintaining subatmospheric liquid helium requires complex cryogenic plants — a factor that severely limits the portability and therefore the potential applications of SRF accelerators in industrial environments.
Though such real-life solutions are exciting and promising, the reality remains a few years away. Nevertheless, IARC has already started talking to several stakeholders in the industry. We must use our best technologies to protect it.
Electron beam technology could be a practical and effective way for water treatment in the future. Now is the time to develop it. What does running large particle accelerators have in common with hospital imaging scanners? The operating system for both requires high performance and stability. Fermilab first developed Scientific Linux as an open-source operating system in to fulfill exactly these demands, and it continues to release new versions.
GE Healthcare, a company that builds medical imaging equipment, found that it had the same needs when it came to operating systems. According to GE, more than 30, medical imaging machines worldwide use this SL-based operating system to search for broken bones, tumors and other injuries on organs, and their numbers will easily double in the next two years. On GE machines, HELiOS manages the whole process, from taking an image of a patient to reconstructing the image and even displaying it for doctors.
At Fermilab, Scientific Linux runs on all computers for particle accelerator operation and on most data taking systems for experiments. Many scientists use it every day to write simulations or perform data analysis. We had never expected that our SL would spread that far or that it would be used in medicine. GE initiated the contact with Fermilab about the software, discussing customization issues. From there, the two institutions began a regular, informal exchange of knowledge and ideas to improve both operating systems.
Fermilab uses Scientific Linux to control and monitor all accelerators on site from the main accelerator operations room. Photo credit: Reidar Hahn. Fermilab develops Scientific Linux in the same way most Linux distributions are developed: The source code is freely available and can be changed or customized.
One other attractive feature of Scientific Linux is its long lifespan: A single SL version, such as SL version 7, is supported by updates for 10 years. A quick lesson in new versions versus new updates: Installing a new version, say version 7, is like buying a new car, while updating a version, say from version 7 to 7. An update includes some new features, but never a major change in the whole design of the software.
Major changes are released as new versions, such as SL version 8. For GE, this long lifespan means that they can support the software of their magnetic resonance imagers and other systems for 10 years, providing publicly reviewed and available bug fixes and security updates, without making major changes, which can be inconvenient for their customers.
They implement features for easy access to file sharing and data storage, which are crucial for high-performance computing. GE uses those computing features for their own image reconstruction. Scientific Linux was created for running accelerators and calculating particle collisions, and now its use has extended to our everyday lives, assisting people worldwide with their health and well-being.
The Scientific Linux team wishes to thank Red Hat for its contributions to maintaining an open, free, collaborative, and transparent open source community for software development.
Scientists are a step closer to building an intense electron beam source without a laser. Tests with the nanotube cathode have produced beam currents a thousand to a million times greater than the one generated with a large, pricey laser system. Fermilab was sought out to test the experimental cathode because of its capability and expertise for handling intense electron beams, one of relatively few labs that can support this project.
The new cathode appears at first glance like a smooth black button, but at the nanoscale it it is made of millions of nanotubes that function like tiny lightning rods. When a strong electric field is applied, it pulls streams of electrons off the surface of the cathode, creating the electron beam. The exceptional strength of carbon nanotubes prevents the cathode from being destroyed.
Traditionally, accelerator scientists use lasers to strike cathodes in order to eject electrons through photoemission. The electric and magnetic fields of the particle accelerator then organize the electrons into a beam.
The tested nanotube cathode requires no laser: it only needs the electric field already generated by an accelerator to siphon the electrons off, a process dubbed field emission. This new technology has extensive applications in medical equipment and national security, since an electron beam is a critical component in generating X-rays.
While carbon nanotube cathodes have been studied extensively in academia, Fermilab is the first facility to test the technology within a full-scale setting. This remarkable result means that electron beam equipment used in industry may become not only less expensive and more compact, but also more efficient. The team continues to study ways to optimize the design of the cathode to prevent any smaller, adverse effects that may take place within the beam assembly. Future research also may focus on redesigning an accelerator that natively incorporates the carbon nanotube cathode to avoid any compatibility issues.
The work represents the kind of research that will be further enabled at the Illinois Accelerator Research Center — a facility that brings together Fermilab expertise with that of industry and academia, for the benefit of the U. Fermilab has developed a large area, highly segmented camera system with pixels capable of handling signals of up to five orders of magnitude dynamic range and in-situ storage of images acquired at high speed Multi-megahertz frequency. The system consists of three major components: 1 a wafer-scale sensor with approximately a million pixels, 2 a Silicon Interposer also called a Silicon Printed Circuit Board or SiPCB , which serves as an interconnection device and pitch adapter between the sensor wafer pixels and a number of smaller readout ASICs, and 3 the custom front-end readout ASIC with a few tens of thousands of pixels, which implements a novel design concept to achieve high dynamic range while maintaining both small pixel area and low power dissipation.
The system is seamless up to 20cm x20cm with pixel sizes on the order of um side without any dead space. Each pixel can integrate a wide dynamic range charge 1 fC to pC that is equivalent to the range of photons impinging on a single pixel at a multi megahertz frequency 6. In addition to high energy physics applications, the system has significant potential for materials research and medical imaging applications.
FLC Region Midwest. Security Lab No. Address P. Box MS Batavia , IL Map it. Want more information? The announcement colloquium can be found on the Fermilab YouTube channel. A remarkable video explains how the Muon g-2 experiment works.
Jorge Cham illustrates the muon anomaly results in an easy to follow set of cartoons. The MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab uses a school bus-sized detector to study fundamental particles called neutrinos. The Fermilab Quantum Institute is working to solve the challenges of quantum sciences and technology. This includes research on coherence time how long qubits can maintain their quantum state , entanglement the phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more qubits are correlated , and algorithms the set of tasks for a quantum computer to solve a problem.
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