There is a very exciting project underway in the US that involves the use of lots of argon. The construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), an international flagship collaboration to unlock the mysteries of neutrinos, represents the largest particle physics project ever built in the US.
The project’s goals are ambitious. It seeks to find out whether neutrinos could be the reason the universe is made of matter. It looks for subatomic phenomena that could help realize Einstein’s dream of the unification of forces.
And it will study and analyze neutrinos emerging from supernovas, as well as the neutrinos generated by a particle accelerator at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. A neutrino is a subatomic particle, and, while it is one of the most abundant particles in the universe, it is incredibly difficult to detect. LBNF will house the DUNE far detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), a mile underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. A stream of neutrinos will be beamed 800 miles through the Earth from Fermilab’s 6,800-acre site in Batavia to SURF.
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