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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
LEAD Two weeks before Gov. Mike Rounds visited Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Lead, scientists made a major discovery that will directly impact research in the DUSEL.
Currently the deepest underground laboratory in the world for particle and astrophysics, Gran Sasso hosts an experiment that includes a beam of neutrinos that is shot from CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, down into Gran Sasso. The experiment is comparable to the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment that is proposed for the DUSEL, which will feature a beam of neutrinos that will be shot from Fermilab in Chicago to the 4,850-foot level of the former Homestake gold mine.
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