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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Lutz Bornschein, Beate Bornschein, Michael Sturm, Marco RÖllig, Florian Priester for the KATRIN collaboration
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 274-277
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T9
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
One of the most important questions in fundamental physics and cosmology are the origin and the masses of fundamental particles, in particular the neutrino masses. KATRIN will allow a model-independent measurement of the neutrino mass scale with an expected sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2 (90% CL). KATRIN will use a source of ultrapure molecular tritium and is currently being built up at the site of KIT, thereby making use of the unique expertise of the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe. This paper presents the status of the KATRIN experiment, with the focus on its Calibration and Monitoring System, which is the last component being subject to R&D.
