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How will Fermilab’s new accelerator propel particles close to the speed of light?

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P - Or, or, it's like we're truth Quarks in the Fermilab accelerator colliding with the
Stoopid particle, our apprehension of the truth made stronger through the collison."

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Fermilab

The PIP-II project at Fermilab includes the construction of a 215-meter-long particle accelerator that will accelerate particles to 84% of the speed of light. It is the first U.S. particle accelerator project with significant contributions from international partners. Research institutions in France, India, Italy, Poland, the UK and the United States are building major components of the new machine. Superconducting radio-frequency cavities will provide the electromagnetic waves that propel particles to 800 million electronvolts. The new particle accelerator will enable Fermilab to generate an unprecedented stream of neutrinos—subtle, subatomic particles that could hold the key to understanding the universe’s evolution. It will power the scientific program for the international, Fermilab-hosted Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF).

PIP-II particle accelerator project: [out some for this post]
World-record beam to power decades of discovery
The Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II, is an essential enhancement to the Fermilab accelerator complex, powering the world’s most intense high-energy neutrino beam on its journey from Illinois to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in South Dakota – a distance of 1,300 kilometers (800 miles). DUNE scientists will use neutrinos to answer some of the most profound questions about our universe. In addition, over the next 50 years, PIP-II will drive a broad physics research program, delivering scientific breakthroughs and likely to reveal surprising answers to questions that are not yet contemplated.
https://pip2.fnal.gov

DUNE at LBNF: [out more]
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is an international flagship experiment to unlock the mysteries of neutrinos. DUNE will be installed in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, under construction in the United States. DUNE scientists will paint a clearer picture of the universe and how it works. Their research may even give us the key to understanding why we live in a matter-dominated universe — in other words, why we are here at all.
P - DUNE will pursue three major science goals: find out whether neutrinos could be the reason the universe is made of matter; look for subatomic phenomena that could help realize Einstein’s dream of the unification of forces; and watch for neutrinos emerging from an exploding star, perhaps witnessing the birth of a neutron star or a black hole.
P - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab is the host laboratory for DUNE, in partnership with funding agencies and more than 1,000 scientists from all over the globe.
https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov

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