SU Neutrinos Featured by A&S News

Several of our projects were recently featured by the College of Arts and Sciences, showcasing progress on our local work, the DUNE 2×2 Near Detector Demonstrator, and the Short Baseline Near Detector. Check out the great article!

Article:  Toward a New Understanding of the Universe

Graduate students from the Experimental Neutrino Physics group with Syracuse-area high school students who took part in SUPER-Tech SHIP, summer 2024.
Physics graduate student Tom Murphy (right, in orange hard hat) working on a DUNE prototype. (Credit: Dan Svoboda)

DUNE 2×2 Milestone!

Yesterday (Monday, Oct. 16), all 4 modules for the DUNE “2×2” detector were lowered into the NuMI tunnel, and will soon be installed in their cryostat.  This is a big step towards its eventual physics run in the NuMI beam.  Congrats to the whole DUNE ND-LAr team who had a hand in getting to this point, including our own Tom Murphy who has been on site and helping to prepare for this day!  Some more photos below, including Tom in hardhat in one:

At least one of us here at SU had deja vu from a similar experience with ArgoNeuT way back in January 2009:

SURPh 2023!

Last week was the culmination of the 2023 Syracuse University Research in Physics (SURPh) program.  Mitch and Denver each worked with two high school students from the Syracuse City School District on various projects related to experimental particle physics.  They were all fantastic, and it was a lot of fun having them around this summer.  See the article from SU for more info.