Read article 'MicroBooNE records first neutrino events'
MicroBooNE, an experiment designed to measure neutrinos and antineutrinos generated by Fermilab’s Booster accelerator (CERN Courier September 2014 p8), has recorded its first neutrino events. Mi...
Read article 'DUNE and its CERN connection'
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment, currently under review by the US Department of Energy (DOE). DUNE has a potentially ...
Read article 'Borexino finds evidence of neutrinos produced in the Earth’s mantle'
In July, the Borexino collaboration reported a geoneutrino signal from the Earth’s mantle with 98% C.L. Geoneutrinos are electron antineutrinos produced by β decays of 238U and 232Th c...
Read article 'An improved measurement of θ13 from Daya Bay'
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has recently published a new measurement of the disappearance of electron antineutrinos emitted by nuclear reactors. The observation improves the precision of ...
Read article 'What’s next for OPERA’s emulsion-detection technology?'
Developed in the late 1990s, the OPERA detector design was based on a hybrid technology, using both real-time detectors and nuclear emulsions. The construction of the detector at the Gran Sasso...
Read article 'Event view of highest energy neutrino detected by IceCube'
This is an event view of the highest energy neutrino detected so far by the IceCube experiment based at the South Pole (CERN Courier December 2014 p30). Each sphere is one optical sensor; the coloured...
Read article 'Fermilab sets neutrino-beam record'
In June, Fermilab’s Main Injector accelerator sustained a 521 kW proton beam, and set a world record for the production of high-energy neutrinos with a proton accelerator. The 120 GeV ...
Read article 'Fifth event signals discovery of ντ appearance'
Setting out from CERN as a muon neutrino, the particle was detected at Gran Sasso as a ντ after travelling 730 km through the Earth.
Read article 'A new neutrino telescope for Lake Baikal'
In early April, members of the Baikal collaboration deployed and started operation of the first cluster of the Gigaton Volume Detector (Baikal-GVD). Named “Dubna”, the cluster comprises 19...
Read article 'LHC and Planck: where two ends meet'
Links between research at opposite ends of the distance scale.
