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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
Scientists to study neutrinos in Homestake later this year
Scientists plan to be studying the properties of neutrinos in the former Homestake Gold Mine this year, Dr. Steve Elliott of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said this week.
Elliott, who is the principal investigator for the Majorana Collaboration, an experiment that hypothesizes that neutrinos have mass and are their own antiparticles, said he hopes to have a small scale experiment set up in the 4,850-foot level later this year. The experiment is mandated by the Department of Energy to be a research and development project for a much larger-scale, one-ton future DUSEL experiment at the 7,400-foot level.
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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 |
-LUX scientists plan to be at Sanford Lab by September
By Wendy Pitlick
This September scientists with the LUX experiment, the largest project planned for the 4,850-foot level of the Sanford Lab, plan to be on site assembling their dark matter detector on the surface of the S.D. Science and Technology Authority property.
Dr. Rick Gaitskell of Brown University in Rhode Island, chief scientist for the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, said a massive detector filled with liquid xenon that is expected to detect dark matter, is currently being constructed in pieces and tested at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.
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