The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.6 million grant to four U.S. universities for work on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
ProtoDUNE
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is advancing technology commonly used in dark matter experiments—and scaling it up to record-breaking sizes.
From BBC Radio 4, June 28, 2018: In this radio piece, reporter Adam Rutherford explores the ProtoDUNE prototype detector at CERN. Segment begins at 7:10.
Experience gained during the construction of prototype detectors paves the way toward the final design of the DUNE detectors.
As the DUNE collaboration grows, collaborators make progress on the two ProtoDUNE detectors at CERN.
From Giornale di Sicilia, March 19, 2018: The Italian media outlet picks up a CERN-produced video of Nicola McConkey, a University of Sheffield postdoctoral researcher and violinist, playing a reel inside a ProtoDUNE detector at CERN.
The ProtoDUNE detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are behemoths in their own right.
From the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, Jan. 16, 2018: A UK team has just completed their first prototype anode plane assembly, the largest component of the DUNE detector, to be used in the ProtoDUNE detector at CERN.
From CERN Courier, Sept. 22, 2017: The DUNE far detector will be the largest liquid-argon neutrino detector ever built, comprising four cryostats holding 68,000 tons of liquid. Prototype detectors called protoDUNE are being built at CERN.
Physicists up and down the Western Hemisphere are fans of neutrinos, and experiments to study the subtle particle are flourishing at Fermilab and throughout Latin America.