ESR Bruno Martin on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in El País newspaper

March 22, 2018 by tiinatimonen

In a feature for El País, Bruno Martin describes some of the open questions facing modern neutrino physics and how long-baseline oscillation experiments may answer them. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, born from the collaboration of science institutions in more than 30 countries, will fire a neutrino beam through 1,300 km of the Earth's crust, from Illinois to Minnesota. The experiment's liquid argon far detector, which will be the largest of its kind, is due to start collecting data in the early 2020s, measuring beam-line neutrino oscillations, supernovae neutrinos and, perhaps, proton decay.

Photo: Aerial view of the accelerator complex at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

Photo credit: Reidar Hahn / Fermilab