Image credit: NOvA collaboration.
On 11 February, the NOvA collaboration announced the detection of the first neutrinos in the long-baseline experiment’s far detector in northern Minnesota. The neutrino beam is generated at Fermilab and sent 800 km through the Earth’s surface to the far detector. Once completed, the near and far detectors will weigh 300 and 14,000 tonnes, respectively. Installation of the last module of the far detector is scheduled for early this spring and outfitting of both detectors with electronics should be completed in summer.
