A new search for dark matter 6,800 feet underground
Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.
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New map of universe’s dark matter
From BBC News, Aug. 3, 2017: Dark Energy Survey researchers have released the most accurate map ever produced of the dark matter in our universe.
Scientists unveil a new inventory of the universe’s dark contents
From Quanta, Aug. 3, 2017: Fermilab scientists Josh Frieman and Scott Dodelson talk about the latest major result from the Dark Energy Survey, which could signal the start of a new era of cosmology.
Tuning in for science
The sprawling Square Kilometer Array radio telescope hunts signals from one of the quietest places on Earth.
ICARUS neutrino detector arrives at Fermilab
From Daily Herald, July 26, 2017: The ICARUS neutrino detector — the largest liquid-argon particle detector ever built — ended its intercontinental journey Wednesday, rolling through the gates of its new home at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia.
An underground groundbreaking
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
A physics project kicks off construction a mile underground.
Largest detector of its kind arrives at Fermilab
From The Beacon-News, July 26, 2017: Fermilab scientist Catherine James reflects on the large box sitting on a flatbed that contained half of the ICARUS liquid-argon particle detector, at 60 feet long and 120 tons the largest of its kind, which she will work with when its installed and running by the end of the year.
Huge underground lab seeks to explain “ghosts of the universe”
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
From LiveScience, July 21, 2017: On the occasion of the LBNF/DUNE groundbreaking, Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln explains why neutrinos are so compelling.
Next-gen subterranean neutrino detector will span three states
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- neutrino
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
From Popular Mechanics, July 21, 2017: The DUNE experiment will study neutrinos and antineutrinos and possibly unravel the secrets of the universe.
Angela Fava: studying neutrinos around the globe
This experimental physicist has followed the ICARUS neutrino detector from Gran Sasso to Geneva to Chicago.