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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Monday, 19 March 2012 08:44 |
With experiment on a five year timetable, scientists optimistic about Sanford Lab future funding
LEAD — On March 26 physicists from around the country will begin the delicate process to assemble an experiment 4,850 feet underground that will study whether neutrinos are their own antiparticle, and answer fundamental questions about the model of physics.
After more than a dozen years of planning and preparation, scientists with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR have been eagerly awaiting their chance to begin setting up underground what they hope is at least a five-year experiment. Having been encouraged by the Department of Energy to retain the Sanford Lab as the site for the experiment that must be conducted over multiple years, Steve Elliott, Spokesperson for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR project, said he is optimistic that the lab will sustain funding for as long as MAJORANA needs the space in the Davis Cavern.
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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Monday, 19 March 2012 08:41 |
LEAD — Since the discovery of neutrinos, scientists from around the world have marveled about their various properties. Deep within the depths of the Sanford Lab scientists hope to answer some of those questions, and change the model of physics.
Steve Elliott, one of the lead scientists with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR collaboration, said the experiment they plan to start assembling underground March 26 will seek to determine whether neutrinos are their own antiparticle. Recently he took time to explain that concept even further.
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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Monday, 12 March 2012 08:24 |
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Scientists expect to gain access to Davis Cavern by end of March
LEAD Scientists will begin the process to move the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world into the Davis Cavern of the Sanford Lab later this month.
After spending several years planning and building their ultra-sensitive detector in a surface laboratory on the Sanford Lab campus, scientists with the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector are slowly disassembling their work, packing it up and preparing to move it underground. At the end of March they plan to gain access to the Davis Cavern, and at the end of April they plan to start transporting the detector 4,850 feet underground.
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