Crews create a blast to take the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to the next stage
…of collaboration: While excavation takes place in South Dakota, DUNE partners around the globe are designing and building the parts for the DUNE detector.” A number of science experiments already…
The Milky Wayβs satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation
…by the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere, but the number was thought to be around just a dozen or so until around the year 2000. Since then, the number…
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…
Precision and ingenuity drive construction of DUNE detector components
…a meaningful number of neutrinos.” Since the beam spreads, the detector at the far end has to be very large to capture a meaningful number of neutrinos. Pip Hamilton, Imperial…
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…