The ProtoDUNE detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are behemoths in their own right. In one sense, the two ProtoDUNE detectors are small. As prototypes of the much larger planned ...

Neutrinos are known for escaping capture. They fly through matter and their different types continuously morph into one another. That elusive, shifting behavior challenges nearly every available tool ...

Argon. It's all around us. It's in the air we breathe, incandescent lights we read by and plasma globes many of us played with as children. In liquid form, argon is also an inexpensive and effective ...

Watchful eye: Scientists at the Fermilab detector operations center monitor the start-up of the DUNE prototype detector. (Courtesy: Dan Svoboda) A prototype argon detector belonging to the Deep ...

CERN's Neutrino Platform houses a prototype of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) known as ProtoDUNE, which is designed to test and validate the technologies that will be applied to the ...

LAr R&D work has continued towards characterising pixel readout with a liquid argon test stand in Sheffield and a comparison of its performance with multi-wire readout in APAs, with applications for ...

A prototype detector based on a system originally developed to help detect the presence of dark matter is about to undergo testing at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. The liquid argon-based ALARM system ...

NEUTRINO hunters are gearing up for open season. When it is complete, this 10-metre-tall golden room will be a neutrino detector, filled with about 800 tonnes of liquid argon. Its shining walls can ...

In a lab buried under the Apennine Mountains of Italy, Elena Aprile, a professor of physics at Columbia University, is racing to unearth what would be one of the biggest discoveries in physics. She ...

The plot shows the DarkSide-50 90% C.L. exclusion limit for the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections, compared to the existing limits. The labels QF (quenching fluctuations) and NQ (non ...

The detection of extra dimensions beyond the familiar four—the three dimensions of space and one of time—would be among the most earth-shattering discoveries in the history of physics. Now scientists ...

In one sense, the two ProtoDUNE detectors are small. As prototypes of the much larger planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, they are only representative slices, each measuring about 1 percent ...