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Strategic Plan
The proposed Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment would greatly advance research at the Intensity Frontier. It is one of the top priorities identified by the P5 panel.
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Neutrino Detectors
The LBNE Science Collaboration is advancing plans for a massive neutrino detector to find out whether neutrino interactions violate the matter-antimatter symmetry.
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Neutrino Beam
Fermilab’s Main Injector produces the world’s highest-intensity neutrino beam. Scientists plan to send the beam to the proposed Sanford laboratory. Project X would dramatically increase the intensity of the neutrino beam and provide proton beams for other experiments, too.
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Why Neutrinos?
Neutrinos are mysterious particles that rarely interact with matter. Yet they might be the reason we exist.
Neutrinos could be the key to finding the answers to some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of our universe. The discovery that neutrinos have tiny masses has opened a first crack in the highly successful Standard Model of Particle Physics, which assumes that these mysterious particles have no mass at all.
Physicists now think that neutrinos could provide answers to some of the puzzling questions not addressed by the Standard Model. In particular, physicists think that neutrinos might be the reason that we exist: their interactions could explain why matter is abundant while antimatter disappeared in our universe.
The proposed Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment aims to find out whether that is the case. It will explore the interactions and transformations of the world's highest-intensity neutrino beam by sending it from Fermilab more than 1,000 kilometers straight through the Earth to the largest particle detectors ever built. The detectors could be housed in the proposed Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake (Sanford Laboratory) in Lead, South Dakota. Sanford Laboratory would be the world’s deepest underground laboratory and would shield the LBNE neutrino detectors from cosmic particles.
US physicists call for underground neutrino facility
Jan. 26 2012
When the US National Science Board nixed plans for an underground lab in 2010, multiple potential experiments were left homeless...
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Next step for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
Jan. 24 2012
...By far the toughest decision has been the selection of the technology for the detector ... The decision is to build LBNE with liquid-argon TPC technology ...
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A good close to the year
Dec. 20 2011
...The final important event from last week was ... a recommendation from the executive committee of the LBNE collaboration regarding how the experiment should be done.
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First physics experiments soon to move into former Homestake mine
Dec. 15 2011
Scientists will begin to move the first physics experiments underground this spring.
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LBNE Collaboration Meeting
An LBNE collaboration meeting was held at Argonne National Laboratory 15-17 Dec. 2011
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LBNE seeks Project Scientist
to provide scientific leadership for the LBNE Project, represent the
Project in interactions regarding scientific matters and serve as senior scientific advisor to the Project Manager, among other duties.
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LBNE coming into focus
Nov. 15 2011
As LBNE moves closer to its CD-1 review this coming spring, the project team has steadily honed its conceptual design ...
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