First particle tracks at neutrino detector
The giant cube-shaped neutrino detector of the size of a three-storey building and the largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world, called ProtoDUNE, the first of the two prototypes for an even larger detector to be built for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, just recorded its first particle tracks. DUNE’s scientific mission is aimed at understanding the mysteries of neutrinos …which should answer major outstanding questions in physics, astronomy and cosmology including “why we are here at all?”, as the press release from CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics based in Geneva, and Fermilab of the United States said. “Now we have the first detector taking beautiful data, and the second detector, which uses a different approach to liquid-argon technology, will be online in a few months,” said Marzio Nessi, head of the Neutrino Platform at CERN. The first of the DUNE detector modules will be built a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.
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