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Friday, 16 October 2009 04:58 |
October 13, 2009
UC Davis News
A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.
The detector will contain about 330,000 tons of ultrapure water 4,800 feet below ground in the former Homestake goldmine in South Dakota. It will be about 15 times bigger than the current largest neutrino experiment, the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan. "If our design is approved and construction is funded, this will be the largest particle physics experiment in the U.S. in the next decade," Svoboda said.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 19:10 |
 Dr. Jose Alonso, at left, works on the “pixel tracker” of the ATLAS detector, which is one of four detectors in the big Large Hadron Collider at CERN. This photo, courtesy of CERN, was taken last year, a few months before Dr Alonso was named director of the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestak… |
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:45 |
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Note: The South Dakota Board of Regents issued the following press release to announce seven mini-grants that will help jump-start working relationships between the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake and South Dakota universities.
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Board of Regents will award seven mini-grants to faculty members across the state who have developed research projects to support science, engineering, and education efforts associated with the new Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake.
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 17:39 |
 The diagram above suggests a design for the National Science Foundation’s Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake. (Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)
April 8, 2008 LEAD, S.D. Two hundred scientists from around the world will gather here later this month to plan e… |
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