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SBND, and Best Wishes to Monica!

The first coupled SBND APAs are now vertical in the D0 Assembly building!  Ohana and Monica have been involved in this work happening at Fermilab.

A Fermilab article goes into more detail, including a quote from Monica:

Scientists assemble final detector of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program

Speaking of Monica, as of  October she has moved to a Guest Scientist position at Fermilab. Congratulations!  We’ll miss her being a Syracuse postdoc, but are super excited that she’ll continue her work on SBND as a Fermilab scientist!

 

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SBND Construction

Check out this cool tweet from @FNALNeutrinos highlighting the work of Monica Nunes, and colleagues, in building the SBND TPC at Fermilab!

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Specialists gather to discuss noble element detectors

The third LIght Detection in Noble Elements (LIDINE) conference, held at SLAC Sept. 22-24, brought together specialists in noble element-based detectors from across the dark matter and neutrino communities. Experts shared new developments in harnessing the scintillation properties of argon, xenon, and other noble elements to study weakly-interacting particles. Prof. Whittington co-chaired the conference and presented new findings on the scintillation properties of liquid argon-xenon mixtures that could lead to enhanced particle detection capabilities in the next generation of liquid argon neutrino experiments.

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ArgoNeuT event in the CERN Courier

An ArgoNeuT Event

The current edition of the CERN Courier features a very nice article by Prof. Ulrich Mosel about the importance of improving the modeling of neutrino-nucleus interactions.  An event display from ArgoNeuT is included to illustrate the complexity of such interactions.  Here’s that same event, showing the Collection plane view too!  It’s most likely a deep-inelastic scattering event, with what appears to be a very interesting backwards-traveling proton.