"Unveiling the Mysteries of Physics: Fermilab's Mile-Deep Excavation Mission"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Big Think
Scientists at Fermilab are working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to study the behavior of neutrinos, which can change their identity and interact rarely with matter. The experiment involves shooting a beam of neutrinos from Fermilab to a detector complex 800 miles away in South Dakota, housed in a mile-deep underground facility. The recent milestone was the completion of the excavation of the caverns that will house the detectors. DUNE aims to study the transformation properties of neutrinos and their antimatter analogs, which could provide clues to solving the matter-antimatter mystery. The first physics results from these experiments are expected to be available at the end of the 2020s.