Success after a three-year sprint
…of a neutrino interaction in a detector: pions, kaons, photons, electrons, protons and more. Because ProtoDUNE-SP sits on Earth’s surface, it also sees a high number of cosmic rays that…
Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilabβs DUNE experiment completed
Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal…
Excavation of massive underground caverns for DUNE halfway complete
Deep below the surface in South Dakota, construction crews have been working tirelessly to carve out a network of caverns and tunnels that one day will house a huge neutrino…
Drilling for neutrinos
Nearly a mile belowground in South Dakota, there’s a flurry of activity. Three shifts of 30 construction workers labor around the clock, carving out subterranean space for science. It’s a…
A minute with Tim Hobbs, theoretical physicist
…I’m a staff physicist. I wear a number of different hats. I’m a theoretical physicist, and I do a lot of computation as well. The main bread and butter of…
What does the Standard Model predict for the magnetic moment of the muon?
…the muon’s magnetic moment. If we can both measure and predict this number to ultra-high precision, we can test whether the Standard Model of Elementary Particles is complete. Muons are…
Fermilab, international partners break ground on new beamline for the worldβs most advanced neutrino experiment
…States. At its peak, construction of LBNF is expected to create almost 2,000 jobs in Illinois and a similar number in South Dakota. The experiment will attract students and young…
The cold eyes of DUNE
…of the argon tanks. But when you’re measuring a limited number of electrons, even the slightest amount of electronics noise can mask the signal you’re looking for. The easiest way…
Contract awarded for the excavation of gigantic caverns for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
…our planning advances, we’ll have better information on the exact number of positions needed. “Thyssen Mining strongly believes in supporting the community. Our observation in the past is that by…
DUNE publishes first physics results from prototype detector
…there is a limit. The number of inactive channels in ProtoDUNE is less than 1%, giving us highly efficient event reconstruction. ProtoDUNE-SP shows that we can reach and exceed our…