New director named for Fermilab The newly-appointed director of Fermilab in Batavia wants you to know he’s been rooting for the U.S. particle physics program for a long time. And also for the Blackhawks. “Let’s say I’m a big hockey fan,” Nigel Lockyer, currently the director of TRIUMF, Canada’s flagship particle physics laboratory, said. “And I am certainly rooting for the Blackhawks. Prior to Vancouver falling out of ...
June 20, 2013 - SouthtownStar
Visualized: this is where the Higgs Boson was discovered It's not everyday you get to tour CERN , the international particle physics research facility that spans the border of both France and Switzerland. It's even more rare to go down into the sprawling facility's tunnels to see an inactive and under repair Large Hadron Collider -- currently, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. But that's just what we did this past week, as we spent some ...
June 18, 2013 - Engadget