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A Fermilab team has completed tests for a crucial superconducting segment for the PIP-II particle accelerator, the future heart of the Fermilab accelerator chain. The segment, called a cryomodule, will be one of many, but this is the first to be fully designed, assembled and tested at Fermilab. It represents a journey of technical challenges and opportunities for innovation in superconducting accelerator technology.

From CNRS, Aug. 30, 2019: A scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research talks about neutrinos and the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab, in this 2-minute video.

Agencies in the United States and France have signed statements expressing interest to work together on the development and production of technical components for PIP-II, a major particle accelerator project with substantial international contributions. In addition, the French agencies also plan to collaborate on DUNE, an international flagship science project that will unlock the mysteries of neutrinos.

Even though the ProtoDUNE time projection chambers are small compared to the planned DUNE far detectors, the data volume that these detectors produce are similar in size to what is coming out of the largest LHC experiments.

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is advancing technology commonly used in dark matter experiments—and scaling it up to record-breaking sizes.

Experience gained during the construction of prototype detectors paves the way toward the final design of the DUNE detectors.

The France Chicago Center program has been successful at Fermilab, where the organization has supported four collaborations with a total of almost $60,000.

As the DUNE collaboration grows, collaborators make progress on the two ProtoDUNE detectors at CERN.

The ProtoDUNE detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are behemoths in their own right.

As the lab builds an international neutrino science portfolio, new partnership agreements have been signed with institutions in six countries.