LIP officially became a member of the DUNE collaboration
"This week, the DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) Collaboration approved the formal apllication for membership put forward by the LIP Neutrino Physics group."
This week, the DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) Collaboration approved the formal apllication for membership put forward by the LIP Neutrino Physics group. LIP thus officially became a member of DUNE. In the picture we see the Portuguese flag at the entrance of the main building at FERMILAB, where a collaboration meeting is taking place.
The discoveries of the last de decades brought neutrinos to the frontline of the quest for answers to our many questions about the composition and evolution of the Universe. DUNE will certainly be one of the main projects in the next decades, studying in particular neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violation.
At CERN, prototypes of DUNE detectors are being developed and will be tested with particle beams this year; the excavations required for the instalation of the new neutrino beam at FERMILAB, and of the four 10 kton detectors at SURF (1300 km away) started in 2017. The first of these detectors should be installed in 2022, and beam is expected in 2026.
For the moment, LIP will contribute to R&D on the calibration systems and to the prototype tests at CERN's neutrino platform. DUNE is a long and ambitious project, and surely new challenges will arise.
Mais informação: http://www.dunescience.org