In the latest instalment of funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fermilab is to receive an additional $60.2 million to support research towards next-generation particle accelerators and preliminary designs for a future neutrino experiment.
The new funds are part of more than $327 million announced by Energy Secretary Steven Chu on 4 August from funding allocated under the Recovery Act to DOE’s Office of Science. Of these funds, $220 million will go towards projects at DOE national laboratories. While many of the physics-related projects are associated with fusion research or light sources, Fermilab and the Brookhaven National Laboratory have both received support for activities in high-energy physics.
Taking the stimulus funds announced earlier this year into account, the Recovery Act is allocating more than $100 million to Fermilab. Out of the additional $60.2 million announced in August, the laboratory will devote $52.7 million to research on next-generation accelerators using superconducting RF technology. The remaining $7.5 million will go to fund a preliminary design for a future neutrino experiment, in collaboration with Brookhaven, which has received $6.5 million for neutrino research in addition to $3 million for improvements to its light source.
