Particles must have this property in order to be accelerated in particle accelerators.
What is electric charge?
These are the “signatures” particles leave inside detectors.
What are particle tracks?
Hundreds of these are used in neutrino detectors to capture the light left after a neutrino collides with an atomic nucleus.
What are photomultiplier tubes or PMTs?
This is the kind of telescope that uses glass lenses to gather light from the stars and magnify their images.
What is a refracting telescope?
This woodland plant is named for its flower which looks like a person standing at a church pulpit.
What is Jack-in-the-pulpit?
These devices are used in accelerators to speed up particles and bend particle beams.
What are magnets?
This type of radiation can be detected with Geiger counters.
What is ionizing radiation?
This anomaly was caused by observing the deficit of atmospheric muon neutrinos.
What is the atmospheric neutrino anomaly?
This astronomical observatory built in the 1890s and located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, has a 40-inch lens, the largest glass lens ever successfully used in a telescope.
What is the Yerkes Observatory?
This is the number of stomachs the bison, a ruminant, has.
What is four?
This device replaced the Cockcroft-Walton pre-accelerator in Fermilab’s accelerator chain.
What is a radio frequency quadrupole or RFQ?
These first-generation detectors were large vessels filled with heated transparent liquid.
What are bubble chambers?
This theory suggests that all fundamental forces were unified into one force at the beginning of the universe.
What is the Grand Unification Theory or GUT?
This distortion of white light passing through a glass lens causes the images of stars to be fuzzy and less focused.
What is chromatic aberration?
This flower is one of the first plants to bloom in spring.
What is spring beauty?
Fermilab’s original Linac, made of drift tubes, was based on the technique developed by this scientist at Berkeley in 1947.
Who is Luis Alvarez?
Most collisions in our world, from neutrinos to billiard balls, can be described by this word.
What is scattering?
Neutrinos are classified by these states.
What are flavor and mass states?
This is the kind of telescope that uses a parabolic mirror to gather light from the stars and magnify their images.
What is a reflecting telescope?
This butterfly is named for the “tails” on its hind wings.
What is the swallowtail butterfly?
Fermilab’s new superconducting Linac will accelerate particles to this energy.
What is 800 MeV?
This system tells a computer to capture data only from interesting and relevant interactions.
What is a trigger system?
In 1987, scientists caught neutrinos from a supernova in this nearby galaxy.
What is the Large Magellanic Cloud?
This famous scientist invented the first successful reflecting telescope in 1668 and has its simple design named after him.
Who is Isaac Newton and his Newtonian reflector?
Named the Illinois state amphibian, this Fermilab resident can burrow up to two feet.
What is the tiger salamander?