Youre probably excited for DUNEno, not that one.
About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second, according to theIceCube Neutrino Observatory.
DUNEis a project hosted by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab.
One of the seven-story-tall DUNE caverns.Photo:Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility
To sniff out neutrinossubatomic particles that only interact with normal matter via the weak nuclear force.
Well, neutrino detectors require substantial size, each one being about the size of a seven-story building.
Nearly 800,000 tons of rock were dug out of the caverns to create space for the detectors.
DUNE’s north cavern.Photo:Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility
The debris was brought to the surface and put in the Open Cut, an open-air former mining area.
(Unfortunately, you areno longer allowed to hit golf balls into the Open Cut.)
The DUNE team expects the first detector to be operational by 2029.
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