UK universities join US physics experiment

Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford and Liverpool formalise commitment to Fermilab

Four UK universities have committed to support an experiment at the United States Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (pictured).

In a deal signed on 24 January, the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Liverpool and Imperial College London agreed to provide expertise to help Fermilab’s under-construction Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor (Magis-100). The sensor will assist with research into areas including quantum physics and dark matter.