Construction begins on international mega-science experiment to understand neutrinos
…expected to create almost 2,000 jobs throughout South Dakota and a similar number of jobs in Illinois. Institutions in dozens of countries will contribute to the construction of DUNE components….
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…
Fermilab marks 70 years of neutrino science and leads next-generation experiment
For 70 years, physicists around the world have designed elaborate detectors and experiments to study a mysterious particle called the neutrino, with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator…
50 years of discoveries and innovations
…number previously known and adding to those identified by the earlier Sloan Digital Sky Survey, another project where Fermilab played a key role. These tiny satellite galaxies can contain hundreds…