Wright Lab researchers developing new neutrino detector technologies
May 5, 2021
A team of Wright Lab researchers from the Yale High Energy Neutrino Physics group, including associate research scientist Domenico Franco and graduate students Lee Hagaman and Giacomo Scanavini, have recently joined the research and development (R&D) effort for a new detector technology that is being developed for use by the international ArgonCube collaboration. ArgonCube, with its novel modular Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector design and innovative technique of pixelated charge readout, will serve as the near detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
DUNE is a planned neutrino experiment with a detector composed of multiple LArTPCs. This experiment will send a high energy neutrino beam over a distance of 1,300 km from Fermilab in Batavia, IL to the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota. DUNE will be used to study a phenomenon
Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe
January 7, 2021
$1.65 Million Grant Will Fund Projects in Neutrino Oscillation
You could be forgiven if you haven’t thought much about neutrinos. The subatomic particles are produced by the sun and by stars, moving unnoticed through rock, metal, air – even through people.
Lisa Koerner, a particle physicist at UH, is leading a $1.65 million project related to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, known as DUNE.
But maybe you should know more about them. International efforts to understand them better could answer one of the enduring mysteries about the nature of the universe: if, as scientists believe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created during the Big Bang, why didn’t they cancel each other out, leaving nothing? Instead, matter persisted, and here we are.