Workers have completed digging for the future home of the ICARUS detector. Photo: Reidar Hahn
Excavation work began in July for the Short-Baseline Neutrino Far Detector Building, which will house the refurbished ICARUS detector.
Tuscany Construction Inc. has completed the excavation for the below-grade portion of the work required to locate the detector on the existing Booster Neutrino Beamline. Next up is the start of concrete work, scheduled to begin this month.
The building, scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2016, is part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program, which consists of three liquid-argon neutrino detectors sitting in the Booster Neutrino Beam, with the ICARUS detector as the far detector, the MicroBooNE detector as the intermediate and the new SBND as the near detector in the program.