Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)
- The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) international experiment for neutrino science and proton decay studies.
- The neutrino — the most abundant matter particle in the universe — has taken on major importance in recent decades in research into several fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the evolution of the universe. DUNE will seek to answer those questions.
- DUNE will consist of two neutrino detectors placed in the world’s most intense neutrino beam. One detector will record particle interactions near the source of the beam, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. A second, much larger, detector will be installed more than a kilometer underground at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota — 1,300 kilometers downstream of the source. DUNE will be installed in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, which is currently under construction.
- DUNE website