G-2 45 Ton Magnet : Brendan Kiburg at TEDxNaperville

Brendan Kiburg received a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois on the MuCap experiment, which studied muon capture on the proton at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. He is now a 2nd year Lederman fellow at Fermilab working on the Muon g-2 experiment, which recently shipped a 50-foot electromagnet from Long Island New York to Fermilab. The experiment studies an internal property of the muon called the magnetic moment in order to discover previously unseen particles.

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