Liquid argon, and lots of it, will be pivotal in the ground-breaking Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which gathers pace at two US locations in 2019.
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and DUNE will be the largest particle physics project ever built in the US and will rely heavily on the use of argon to discover more about the mysteries of particles called neutrinos.
The LBNF, equipped with intricate cryogenic technology, will house the DUNE far detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), a mile underground laboratory near Lead, South Dakota, as well as a smaller near detector at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. A beamline will send neutrinos 800 miles through the Earth from Fermilab’s 6,800-acre site to SURF (see figure 1).
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