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South Dakota Senator Lee Schoenbeck recently visited the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, and shared his experiences and insights into the groundbreaking research.

Michael Cohen, an emeritus professor of physics and astronomy in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, died on June 30. He was 94.

DUNE is designed to detect the Universe’s most antisocial particle: the neutrino.

Alex Himmel, a scientist at Fermilab, provided a quote on quantum dot liquid scintillators.

Two colossal caverns, each more than 500 feet long and seven-stories tall, were completed to contain the gigantic particle detector modules for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, an international collaboration led by Fermilab. A third cavern will house utilities for operation of the DUNE far detector.

A mile beneath Lead, the beginning of quantum particle research is about to take shape.

With the caverns now open, detectors will start to make their way down over the next year to help with LBNF/DUNE.

How I spent my summer learning about enigmatic particles that pass right through me by the billions every second!

Theoretical physicist James D. “BJ” Bjorken, theoretical physicist at SLAC and Stanford, passed away on Aug. 6. He was born in Chicago and in 1979, he left the SLAC and Stanford faculties to become associate director for physics at the Fermilab, saying he wanted to learn more about the accelerator side of things

There are patterns seen in quarks and leptons that remain unexplained, but it can be hypothesized that quarks and leptons might be created of still smaller particles. Does the Standard Model allow for an even smaller layer of matter to exist?