DUNE at LBNF

Successful test to lower a full-scale DUNE detector component a mile underground

The international LBNF/DUNE team with its partners recently tested the logistics of shipping and handling the large detector components that will make up the far-site detector of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. On Wednesday, Nov. 2, personnel at the Sanford Underground Research Facility successfully lowered a 25-foot-long detector component for DUNE a mile underground. This was a full-scale prototype assembled and tested in Europe, then shipped from CERN to South Dakota. DUNE will ship about 150 of these components to South Dakota to build the first neutrino detector module of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Construction workers wearing yellow jackets and hard hats watch the lifting of a 25-foot-long detector component in a shiny, silver-colored box
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, personnel at the Sanford Underground Research Facility successfully lowered a 25-foot-long detector component for DUNE a mile underground. Photo: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility