Fermilab and CERN Begin Installation Work on DUNE Neutrino Experiment
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Installation crews from Fermilab, CERN and the Sanford Underground Research Facility have begun assembling the steel frames for DUNE’s two far‑detector cryostats deep underground in Lead, South Dakota. The structures will enclose roughly 17,000 tons of liquid argon each, creating the massive, ultra‑cold vessels needed for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. The experiment will fire a neutrino beam 1,300 km from Fermilab to the detectors, with a near detector measuring the beam before travel. CERN is supplying more than 6,200 tons of steel and leading design, logistics and installation, marking its first major hardware contribution to a non‑European project. The underground facility is slated for completion in 2029, detector installation in 2030 and beam operation by 2031, and will enable groundbreaking physics discoveries.
💡 Why It Matters
- · DUNE’s long‑baseline neutrino beam will probe CP violation in the lepton sector, a crucial step toward explaining why the universe is dominated by matter.
