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10/07/16

Hunting the nearly un-huntable

The MINOS and Daya Bay experiments weigh in on the search for sterile neutrinos.

The 2×2 prototype detector for the DUNE near detector was placed in its cryostat in October 2023

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

08/12/24

The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos.

11/01/04

Tau lepton

The discovery of an elementary particle that looked a lot like the electron, but had 3500 times its mass stunned most particle physicists three decades ago.

11/01/04

"Large scale networks of computing resources in the service of the most computationally intensive problems of the future" is one vision of the Grid, being developed by computer scientists and physicists around the globe.

11/01/04

The road to Beijing

It was 10 p.m. Thursday in California, midnight Thursday in Chicago, 7 a.m. Friday in Europe, 1 p.m. Friday in China and 2 p.m. Friday in Japan when Jonathan Dorfan stood up to announce the recommendation of the International Technology Recommendation Panel.

11/01/04

Seismic metal shoes

After waiting more than a year for safety and maintenance arrangements, sculptor Douglas Abdell's Kryeti-Aekyad set foot outside the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's main auditorium on August 6.

11/01/04

Antimatter

Antimatter is matter’s natural counterpart.

11/01/04

Extreme neutrinos

Searching for the secrets of the universe in the depths of the earth.

11/01/04

Cigarette Lighter

Some might think it strange that data taken from the Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment, a kilometer-wide neutrino detection system buried in South Pole ice sheets, is analyzed with the help of a cigarette lighter.

11/01/04

Families of the world

Scientists and their families are finding they must adapt to the increasingly international nature of particle physics. The effects on family life go far beyond jet lag and it's up to individuals to navigate the foreign terrain.

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