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One of two neutrino detector caverns at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment hosted by Fermilab. The caverns are about one mile underground, more the 500 feet long, and seven stories high. Construction required removing 800,000 tons of rock. A third cavern will house utilities for operation of the detector. Photo credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility.
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Big Infrastructure for Big Science - The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Posted August 1, 2024, Length: 26:59
Scientific research needs supporting infrastructure – some small, some big, but rarely simple. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment – DUNE – will study the neutrino, one of the smallest atomic particles that is a fundamental building block of the universe. DUNE will send neutrinos generated at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility near Chicago 800 miles though the earth to a massive detector in South Dakota, 1500 meters underground, that will collect data for scientists around the world.
To explain the experiment itself, the infrastructure that will make it possible, and how that infrastructure is being built, we’re talking with Ron Ray, Particle Physicist at Fermilab and Deputy Project Director of the LBNF/DUNE project team, to join us. Ron earned his Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of California-Irvine and worked as a scientific researcher at Northwestern University.
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Descriptions of photos at top of page, from left to right:
Bayonne Bridge, from Bayonne, NJ to Staten Island, NY;
the Tom Moreland Interchange in Atlanta, GA;
Dworshak Dam, in Clearwater County, ID;
a transmission substation in Orem, UT.
All photos courtesy of Wikipedia.