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This is the home page of the Duke University high energy neutrino and cosmology group. On these pages you can find information about and for our group, along with general information about neutrino physics and cosmology. We work in the Super-K, T2K, DUNE, COHERENT, SNEWS, HALO and LSST collaborations. Maybe you should join us!
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Super-Kamiokande is a 50~kiloton water Cherenkov detector located at the Kamioka Observatory of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo. It was designed to study neutrino oscillations and carry out searches for the decay of the nucleon. The … Continue reading
The COHERENT collaboration aims to measure CEvNS (Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering) using the high-quality pion-decay-at-rest neutrino source at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The SNS provides an intense flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-MeV range, with … Continue reading
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment /Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (DUNE/LBNF) will send a beam of neutrinos 1300 km from Fermilab to a large liquid argon detector underground in South Dakota to explore neutrino oscillations. It will also hunt for a burst of supernova … Continue reading
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project is a giant survey telescope that will be located in Chile and is designed to make a three dimensional survey of the entire visible sky. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration will examine … Continue reading
The T2K experiment is a “long-baseline” neutrino experiment where neutrinos are produced in an accelerator north of Tokyo and then shot across Japan to the Super-Kamiokande detector underneath the Japanese Alps. Super-Kamiokande is a giant underground water Cherenkov experiment, designed … Continue reading
The Helium and Lead Observatory (HALO) is a dedicated supernova neutrino detector that is presently under construction underground at SNOLAB in the Creighton Mine in Sudbury Ontario Canada. It uses 76 tonnes of annular lead blocks instrumented with 128 tubular Helium-3 neutron … Continue reading
World Wide, several detectors currently running or nearing completion are sensitive to a core collapse supernova neutrino signal in the Milky Way. The neutrino signal emerges promptly from a supernova’s core, whereas it may take hours for the first photons … Continue reading
Erin Conley’s article “Searching for supernova neutrinos with DUNE”, summarizing DUNE’s new supernova burst paper , appeared in Fermilab News. Nice job, Erin!