The compact design of Fermilab’s electron beam prototype accelerator for sterilizing medical equipment is made possible by combining four emerging particle accelerator technologies. During the ...

As the massive 95-metric ton coldbox completed its cross-ocean journey, the crowd at Fermilab braving frigid winter temperatures last week could imagine what the particle accelerator being chilled to ...

Batavia, Illinois, Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Every day, scientists, engineers and technicians at Fermilab push the boundaries of knowledge in fields like particle physics, accelerator ...

Lia Merminga, director of the Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, has stepped down from the job. Merminga was the first woman to lead Fermilab, a physics research facility that’s home to an advanced ...

A. Lincoln Read was one of the first physicists hired to help launch the U.S. government’s Fermilab particle physics and accelerator laboratory near Batavia, and held important roles at the lab for 38 ...