Internships

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) will be one of three liquid argon neutrino detectors at Fermilab as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. MicroBooNE and the ICARUS-T600 are the intermediate and far detectors in the program, respectively and complete the triplet. SBND, the near detector in the program, will record over a million neutrino interactions per year. By providing such a high statistics measurement of the un- oscillated content of the booster neutrino beam, SBND is a critical element in performing searches for neutrino oscillations at the Fermilab SBN Program. The large data sample will also allow studies of neutrino-argon interactions in the GeV energy range with unprecedented precision. The physics of these interactions is an important element of future neutrino experiments that will employ the LArTPC technology, such as the long-baseline Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The SBND detector is being built by a strong international partnership involving institutions from the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Spain, Paraguay, and Brazil as well as Fermilab and CERN. It is anticipated to begin operation in 2024.

– 10 to 15 participants per tour

SQMS Center: The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) Center is one of the five DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. Led by Fermilab, SQMS is a collaboration of 20 partner institutions – National labs, academia and industry- working together to bring transformational advances in the field of quantum information science (QIS). SQMS research is primarily focused on increasing the lifetime of qubits, the basic elements of quantum computing. Increasing coherence time, which is the length of time that a qubit can effectively process information, is critical to realizing next-generation quantum computers and sensors.

One of the Center’s main strengths comes from Fermilab’s expertise in developing and building complex particle accelerators based on technologies such as superconducting cavities and cryogenics. The SQMS Center will leverage this expertise and that of its partners to engineer multiqubit quantum processors platforms based on state-of-the-art qubits and related superconducting technologies. Working hand in hand with embedded industry partners, SQMS will make an important impact in tech transfer and commercialization of DOE technologies for QIS.

The SQMS center will build a quantum computer at Fermilab which will open unprecedented computational opportunities with important impact in science and society and deploy new quantum sensors that could lead to the discovery of the nature of dark matter and other elusive subatomic particles.

– 20 participants per tour

This is a general tour of the Industrial Area of APS-TD, where components for accelerators, (for Fermilab and other accelerators around the world) are built.  The tour would be focused on superconducting magnet construction and testing, with some RF cavity work included.   The tour starts with a general overview in the IB3A atrium, where we have a display of conventional magnet (regular copper coils) and superconducting magnet posters and hardware, then moves into IB3 where they are building superconducting coils for the LHC.  From there we go to ICBA, where they are building cold masses and cryostats for the LHC and assembling quadrupole magnets into them.   From there we would walk through the Industrial Center Building, where they have a display of RF cavities, and are building cryostats into which the RF cavities are being assembled.   We would then proceed to IB1, where they are testing both conventional and superconducting magnets as well as RF cavities.  The tour would finish in IB1.  This tour usually takes about an hour. 

– 20 participants per tour

I am Irene Zoi, a postdoc at Fermilab working on the CMS experiment. I will present the upgrade of the silicon tracker of the experiment and show our test setup for silicon detectors. 

– 10 to 15 participants per tour

Linac/MCR Tour (Main Control Room): Have you ever wondered how large and small scale experiments such as NOvA, ICARUS, and Meson Test receive consistent beam for their detectors to facilitate discoveries? Or how the particle accelerators are remotely controlled and tuned? Well, look no further than this Linac/MCR tour.

The tour will be led by Accelerator Operators. These are the people who work rotating shifts 24/7 to monitor and tune all the particle accelerators on site efficiently and consistently. The start of tour will be in Linac, the first accelerator in the accelerator complex chain. Participants will be able to see from a distance the hydrogen bottle and source cubes where all the science starts.

The tour will continue with walking through the Linac gallery where most components to the RF system are located to accelerate particles up to 400 MeV before entering Booster.

The tour will conclude with a view of the MCR, Main Control Room. From the MCR, over 40,000 accelerator components are used to adjust, diagnose, and fix problems affecting accelerator performance. This is where members of the Operations Department collaborate and support machine experts such as technicians, engineers, engineering physicists, and scientists of different machines and experiments.