The MicroBooNE project was presented with this award in Arlington, Virginia, on March 23. Photo: Reidar Hahn
On March 23, the Department of Energy recognized the MicroBooNE project with a Secretary Award of Achievement in Arlington, Virginia. DOE noted the team’s development new techniques in the area of liquid-argon detection technology.
The award citation notes that the MicroBooNE project team successfully fabricated a unique, first-of-its-kind, 100-ton neutrino detector for the high-energy physics program of discovery in neutrino science. The $19 million project is a new type of experimental instrument called a liquid-argon time project chamber, designed to reconstruct, in space and time, the ionizing tracks of particles emanating from the interaction of an incident neutrino with an argon atom in the detector’s cryostat.
See the complete award citation.
Deputy Secretary of Energy Liz Sherwood-Randall, center, recently presented the MicroBooNE project team with an award for a Secretary Award of Achievement. From left: Ted Lavine, DOE, MicroBooNE program manager; Paul Philp, DOE, MicroBooNE federal project director; Catherine James, Fermilab, MicroBooNE deputy project manager; Chris Mossey, Fermilab, deputy director for LBNF. Photo courtesy of the Department of Energy