Nov 26
The cryogenic detector development facility is located at the West Campus of Colorado State University and provides facilities for R&D, testing, and quality assurance of detectors that operate in cryogens such as liquid argon or liquid nitrogen. Multiple research dewars are in place for this work and the focus has been on the development of …
Nov 26
Preparation for LAr 35 ton Phase II Test Underway In March, 2015 the Phase II operation of the 35 ton will begin where a prototype time projection chamber (TPC) cell (for the LBNE far detector) will be tested. The anode plane assembly portion of this cell will contain prototype photon detectors as well. The prototype …
Feb 23
On December 10, 2012 the Department of Energy granted phase 1 of the LBNE project CD1 (Critical Decision 1) approval. This marks a major step toward the ultimate construction of the proposed neutrino experiment which will direct a beam of muon neutrinos about 1300 kilometers through the Earth to a 10 kiloton liquid argon detector …
Aug 13
The CSU High-Energy Physics and Particle Astrophysics (HEPPA) program has been recognized as a Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence by Colorado State University. From the CSU VPR office: “The Programs of Research and Scholarly Excellence at Colorado State University were initiated in 1991. Programs are awarded this designation because they have achieved great distinction …
Aug 12
From the T2K Collaboration: “At the 2012 Neutrino conference in Kyoto, Japan, the T2K collaboration presented new results on electron neutrino appearance from muon neutrino that confirmed their previous published results in PRL, in July 2011, which reported the first single experimental indication that θ13 is non-zero and large with a 2.5 σ level of …