MAGIS-100 environmental characterization and noise analysis

We investigate and analyze site specific systematics for the MAGIS-100 atomic interferometry experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. As atom interferometers move out of the laboratory environment passive and active mitigation for noise sources must be implemented. To inform the research and development of the experiment design, we measure ambient temperature, humidity, and vibrations of the installation site. We find that temperature fluctuations will necessitate enclosures for critical subsystems and a temperature controlled laser room for the laser system. We also measure and analyze the vibration spectrum above and below ground for the installation site. The seismic vibration effect of gravity gradient noise is also modeled using input from a low-noise seismometer at multiple locations and a mitigation scheme is studied using a stochastic simulation and characterized by a suppression factor.

Midwest

The chapter “Midwest” explains about scientific and technological sites of adult interest in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, including Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, National Model Aviation Museum, John Deere Company, The Henry Ford, Forest History Center, National Museum of the Great Lakes, and the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. The traveler is provided with essential information, including addresses, telephone numbers, hours of entry, handicapped access, dining facilities, dates open and closed, available public transportation, and websites. Nearly every site included here has been visited by the authors. Although written with scientists in mind, this book is for anyone who likes to travel and visit places of historical and scientific interest. Included are photographs of many sites within each state.

Scintillation timing characteristics of common plastics for radiation detectionexcited with 120 GeV protons

The timing characteristics of scintillators must be understood in order to determine which applications theyare appropriate for. Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) and polyethylene teraphthalate (PET) are common plastics withuncommon scintillation properties. Here, we report the timing characteristics of PEN and PET, determined by excitingthem with 120 GeV protons. The test beam was provided by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the scintillatorswere tested at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. PEN and PET are found to have dominant decay constants of 34.91 nsand 6.78 ns, respectively.

The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab

The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program consists of three liquid argon time-projection chamber detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Its main goals include searches for New Physics—particularly eV-scale sterile neutrinos, detailed studies of neutrino–nucleus interactions at the GeV energy scale, and the advancement of the liquid argon detector technology that will also be used in the DUNE/LBNF long-baseline neutrino experiment in the next decade. We review these science goals and the current experimental status of SBN.

From the Bronx to Batavia and Beyond: Leon Max Lederman (1922–2018)

Leon Max Lederman was a towering figure in the world of elementary particle physics in the second half of the 20th century. His experiments shaped our understanding of the world of particle physics. Included in the long list of his accolades was the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger for the discovery that the muon neutrino is distinct from the electron neutrino. Among his many science leadership roles, he served for a decade as Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Lederman was a spokesperson and champion for science and one of the most visible physicists of his generation. In his remarkable career Lederman journeyed from his youth in the Bronx, NY, to the directorship of Fermilab in Batavia, IL, to become an international proponent for physics beyond any one institution.

The Prompt Processing System and Data Quality Monitoring in the ProtoDUNE-SP Experiment

The DUNE Collaboration is conducting an experimental program (named protoDUNE) which involves a beam test of two large-scale prototypes of the DUNE Far Detector at CERN operating in 2018-2019. The volume of data to be collected by the protoDUNE-SP (the single-phase detector) will amount to a few petabytes and the sustained rate of data sent to mass storage is in the range of a few hundred MB per second. After collection the data is committed to storage at CERN and transmitted to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the US for processing, analysis and long-term preservation. The protoDUNE experiment requires substantial Data Quality Monitoring capabilities in order to ascertain the condition of the detector and its various subsystems. We present the design of the protoDUNE Prompt Processing System, its deployment at CERN and its performance during the data challenges and actual data taking.

Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector Technologies for Particle Identification in the Electron-Ion Collider Experiments

In the proposed Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) experiments, particle identification (PID) of the final state hadrons in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering allows the measurement of flavor-dependent gluon and quark distributions inside nucleons and nuclei. The EIC PID consortium (eRD14 Collaboration) has been formed for identifying and developing PID detectors using Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) techniques for the EIC experiments. A modular Ring Imaging Cherenkov (mRICH) detector has been designed for particle identification in the momentum coverage from 3 GeV/c to 10 GeV/c. The mRICH detector consists of an aerogel radiator block, a Fresnel lens, a mirror-wall and a photosensor plane. The first prototype of this detector was successfully tested at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in April 2016 for verifying the detector working principles. This talk will highlight the mRICH beam test results and their comparison with GEANT4-based detector simulations. An implementation of the mRICH detector concept in the Forward Angle sPHENIX spectrometer at BNL will also be mentioned in this talk.