DUNE

A successful test delivers DUNE steel beam a mile underground at Sanford Underground Research Lab in Lead, South Dakota.

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.

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.

South Dakota Senator Lee Schoenbeck recently visited the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, and shared his experiences and insights into the groundbreaking research.

DUNE is designed to detect the Universe’s most antisocial particle: the neutrino.

Two colossal caverns, each more than 500 feet long and seven-stories tall, were completed to contain the gigantic particle detector modules for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, an international collaboration led by Fermilab. A third cavern will house utilities for operation of the DUNE far detector.

A mile beneath Lead, the beginning of quantum particle research is about to take shape.

With the caverns now open, detectors will start to make their way down over the next year to help with LBNF/DUNE.

A massive milestone was celebrated on the international Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment that will tell us more about the universe and how it works.

How I spent my summer learning about enigmatic particles that pass right through me by the billions every second!