Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research

...research on next-generation particle accelerator technologies; and $7.5 for neutrino research in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory. Lawrence ...improvements at the National Synchrotron Light Source; and $6.5 million for neutrino research. Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge, TN$8.7 million, incl...

AGU journal highlights -- March 25, 2009

...per air. Osprey et al. compare cosmic ray muon rates from the Main Injector neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) underground neutrino detector in Soudan, Minnesota, with upper air temperature data from the Eur...

National and international doctoral training

...LAS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the search for new physics taking place there, along with collaboration in international neutrino experiments. From a theoretical point of view, a broad spectrum of research on quantum field theory is also being studied, while at the same time buil...

neutrino in Biological Technology

Polar neutrino observatory construction leaps ahead

Robert Paulos, associate director for the IceCube project, holds one of the digital optical modules that power the IceCube neutrino telescope. Photo courtesy of the Ice Cube Project. Madison, Wis. An international team of scientists and engineers has taken a major step toward completion of what...

IceCube Drilling Rig

... and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - to build a neutrino telescope known as IceCube is now being tested at the UW-Madison Physical S... be on hand to describe the rig, and explain IceCube and the science behind neutrino astronomy. To obtain recent news, graphics and pictures of the IceCube T...

First pieces of Antarctic deep-space particle detector are in place

...al optical modules, designed to sample high-energy neutrino particles from deep space, are being deployed in 7... in place the first critical elements of a massive neutrino telescope at the South Pole. The successful dep...escope, which is being built around a much smaller neutrino telescope known as AMANDA, for Antarctic Muon and...