Read article 'DUMAND and the origins of large neutrino detectors'
In 1976, neutrinos did not yet have the prominent role in particle physics that they play today. Postulated by Pauli in 1930, they had been said to be undetectable due to their tiny interaction...
Read article 'Japan eyes up its future'
Japan has been a leader in the global neutrino community since the 1980s, breaking ground (both literally and figuratively) with multiple generations of massive underground experiments. These e...
Read article 'NOvA releases new bounds on neutrino mixing parameters'
The breakthrough results from the Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments, which showed that neutrinos oscillate between their three flavours, marked the start of nearly two decades of tremendous ...
Read article 'A portal to new physics'
The 1998 discovery that neutrinos can oscillate between different flavours, by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in Japan and subsequently by the SNO experiment in Canada, marked a turning point ...
Read article 'IceCube seeks to expand'
The IceCube experiment at the South Pole has been one of the pioneers of the field of neutrino astronomy. During a seven-year-long construction campaign that ended in 2010, the 325 strong IceC...
Read article 'Neutrino pioneer'
When I meet Jack in his office in Building 2, he has just returned from a “splendid” birthday celebration – a classical-music concert “with a lady conductor”, he is quick to ...
Read article 'Futures intertwined'
CERN and Fermilab have a rich history of scientific accomplishment. Fermilab, which is currently the only US laboratory fully devoted to particle physics, tends to favour fermions: the top and bottom ...
Read article 'Testing of DUNE tech begins'
The planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) (CERN Courier December 2015 p19) will require 70,000 tonnes of liquid argon, making it the largest experiment of its kind – 100 ...
Read article 'Construction of KM3NeT, a next-generation neutrino telescope, has begun'
In the early morning of 3 December, scientists and engineers started the installation of KM3NeT (CERN Courier July/August 2012 p31). Once completed, it will be the largest detector of neutrinos i...
Read article 'SHiP sets a new course in intensity-frontier exploration'
The go-ahead to prepare a Comprehensive Design Report is received.
