Summer Internships

PBar/Muon

Visit the recently decommissioned Antiproton Source that was used to make and accumulate antiprotons for the Tevatron collider using cutting-edge technologies for the vacuum, instrumentation, and stochastic cooling. Learn about the conversion this area to support Muon Physics.

Meet at the AP10 service building parking lot. NOTE: No food or drinks allowed in the building and wear closed-toe shoes.

DZero Detector

DZero is one of two detectors at Fermilab where the proton/anti-proton collisions took place in the Tevatron.

Meet at the main entrance of the DZero Assembly Building. NOTE: Wear closed-toe shoes.

Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF)

The Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF) is a Particle Physics Division operated, high energy beam facility devoted to detector research and development. The Facility is located on the west side of the Meson Detector Building. The facility consists of two versatile beamlines (MTest and MCenter) in which users can test equipment or detectors. The MTest primary beamline consists of a beam of high energy protons (120 GeV) at moderate intensities (~1-300 kHz). This beam can also be targeted to create secondary, or even tertiary particle beams of energies down to below 1 GeV, consisting of pions, muons, and/or electrons. The MCenter beamline and is currently undergoing renovation.

See location.

Accelerator Source and Control Room

This tour describes how hydrogen atoms from a tank are eventually accelerated to 99.999% of the speed of light, and eventually sent to the experiments for use, including the test beam! Highlights are the Linac and Cockroft-Walton accelerators and the operators who control the beam.

Meet in the lobby of the auditorium, Wilson Hall.

Collider Detector Facility (CDF)

CDF, like DZERO, is a colliding beam detector located on the Tevatron. Check out the tracking wire chamber and other detector subcomponents as well as the control room.

Meet at the CDF building southeast entrance and you must have your Fermilab ID displayed to enter the building. Be sure to wear closed-toe shoes; no sandals.

New Muon Lab (NML)

Check out the latest advances in superconducting RF cavities that will be used to construct the next generation of linear accelerators at NML!

Meet at the South entrance to NML Building.

Tevatron

The Tevatron was the world's largest accelerator until the startup of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Descend underground into the Tevatron tunnel and see the beam pipe and the magnets that steer and focus the beam.

Meet at 2:45 by A4. Use this Map to A4

NOνA

NOvA is a next generation long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment seeking to answer some of the fundamental questions in neutrino physics. When complete, NOvA will consist of a pair of liquid scintillator tracking calorimeters, one weighing approximately 300 tons on-site at Fermilab and another weighing more than 14,000 tons in northern Minnesota. The detectors will be exposed to neutrinos generated by the upgraded NuMI beam following the current shutdown.

On the tour you will visit the Neutrino Control Room in Wilson Hall, the 200 ton NOvA surface prototype detector, and time permitting the block pivoter demonstrator at CDF. Meet in the atrium.

Industrial Area (SRF and Magnets)

In the Industrial Area, Fermilab's Technical Division designs and builds state of the art superconducting radio frequency (SRF) accelerating systems and superconducting magnets, among other things. See superconducting magnets being built, see the inside of an SRF cavity, and see where magnets and bare cavities are tested.

Meet at the front door of Industrial Center Building (ICB), across the road from CDF.