detector technology

A collaboration of scientists and engineers are tackling the colossal engineering challenge of building massive, super-cooled containers to hold liquid argon for the DUNE experiment.

An international team led by Fermilab’s Cristián Peña created a new photon detector that can be used in quantum networking and computing, space-to-ground communication, exoplanet exploration and fundamental probes for new physics such as dark matter.

SDPB speaks with the science director at SURF about the outfitting massive underground caverns at SURF.
The caverns are currently having utilities, like fire suppression and duct work installed and will host cryostats for DUNE’s far detectors.

A collaboration of scientists tested next-generation superconducting microwire single photon detectors (SMSPDs) at Fermilab to further particle physics research.

Brazil is a leading collaborator in the development of innovative technologies for the DUNE experiment. The State University of Campinas (Unicamp) is developing technologies for the liquid argon purification process and the X-Arapuca light detector.

A detector in the Mediterranean discovered a cosmic neutrino carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date. Fermilab’s Bryan Ramson weighs in the new discovery.

The new memorandum of understanding will elevate the collaboration between the Spanish Ministry of Science and Fermilab in developing detection systems and the physics of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Faculty and students in the Experimental Neutrino Physics group at Syracuse University are working on DUNE detector construction, operation and analysis. This includes collaboration work on the the 2×2 prototype, a new prototype “pixel” Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detector and the Short-Baseline Near Detector.

Argonne recently hosted the 25th international workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators attended by global experts in high energy physics. Fermilab Director, Lia Merminga was the keynote speaker to nearly 200 theorists and experimentalists attending NuFact who are investigating the elusive neutrino.

The 2×2 detector has captured its first neutrino interactions at Fermilab with help from scientists at SLAC. The prototype neutrino detector will help fine-tune a full-size version of the DUNE Near Detector Liquid Argon detector and will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day.