News tagged with neutrino detector
Lying in wait for WIMPs: Researchers seek to dramatically increase sensitivity of Large Underground Xenon detector
Although it's invisible, dark matter accounts for at least 80 percent of the matter in the universe. No one knows what it is, but most scientists would bet on weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
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Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals
(PhysOrg.com) -- After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Test paves way for 15,000-ton neutrino detector
Last month, the preparations for the assembly of the NOvA neutrino detector passed a pivotal test in an assembly building at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Measuring elusive neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more about the sun
Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measuring the flow of solar neutrinos ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Glass implosion tests help design stronger neutrino detectors
At a once defunct Navy facility in Rhode Island, Brookhaven scientists working on the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) have set up a death trap for the key components of the project’s ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Neutrino detector starts measurement
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Double Chooz collaboration recently completed its neutrino detector which will see anti-neutrinos coming from the Chooz nuclear power plant in the French Ardennes. The experiment is now ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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NSF signs $34.5-million operating agreement as Antarctic neutrino detector nears completion
The National Science Foundation has signed a five-year, $34.5-million agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to operate a unique telescope--a cubic kilometer in volume--buried in the Antarctic ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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IceCube neutrino observatory nears completion
In December 2010, IceCube -- the world's first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, which is located beneath the Antarctic ice -- will finally be completed after two decades of planning. In an article in ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Scientists see evidence that rules of particle physics may need a rewrite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two separate collaborations involving Indiana University scientists have reported new results suggesting unexpected differences between neutrinos and their antiparticle brethren. These results ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Neutrino mass: 'Ghost particle' sized up by cosmologists
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmologists at UCL (University College London) are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space.
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Physicists Use Underground Lab to Detect Rare Particles, Peek into Earth's Center
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a delicate instrument located under a mountain in central Italy, two University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists are measuring some of the faintest and rarest particles ever detected, geo-neutrinos, ...
Mar 26, 2010 |
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The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed At Super-Kamiokande
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Researchers Detect First Neutrino Events at T2K Facilities in Japan
(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Grant to Design Neutrino Detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...
May 01, 2009 |
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