Five Kiloton Neutrino Detector by Denger
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"At the heart of the MINOS laboratory is a 5 kiloton Magnetized Tracking Calorimeter. This neutrino detector is located deep underground in a cavern which was tunneled out of solid rock 714 meters beneath the Earth's surface. It was built on the lowest level of an abandoned iron mine in an attempt to shield the unit from interference by cosmic rays.
The instrument is designed to measure neutrino events from a beam projected by an apparatus (called NuMI) about 700 kilometers away. Neutrino data is gathered from the events which occur within the MINOS detector itself. These experiments are conducted at temperatures just a few hundredths of a degree above Absolute Zero."
More detailed information may be found at
http://www.hep.umn.edu/minos/index.html
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Comments (14)
busi2ness
Your POV is excellent highlighting the size of the plant, bright colours!
jocko500
this is very cool looking
wackiej
I am certainly glad you supplied a link for more information and you did a fantastic job of capturing this futuristic looking underground cavern lab of sorts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Hendesse
Excellent and very interesting shot. Perfect POV!!!
miladyblu
Hello!Very impressive and very interesting shot!!Amazing capture!!I love the stunning colors,the magnificent point of view,the great perspectiveand fantastic details!!Excellent work!!Really well done!!thank you for sharing!!Have a happy sunday!!A big kiss and a big hug!!
lior
Very creative artwork:excellent render!
ARTWITHIN
Interesting place and function. I really love the colors painted. I checked out the link and on the Overview page is a picture of an interesting piece of wall art. It probably has some more technical use, but it is art to me. Excellent POV.
Denger
There is indeed a magnificent mural painted on the cavern wall adjacent to the Magnetized Tracking Calorimeter. It presents all sorts of images, including portraits of Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli, among other pioneers in the particle physics field. The mural itself was painted on the rough cavern wall (no mean feat in and of itself!) by artists Joe Giannetti, Leila Giannetti and Mick Pulsifer. The story and a close-up of the mural may be found at http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/?pid=1000118
MarkHirst
Given that five kiloton neutrino detectors are not that common and this one is 3/4 km underground, I'm guessing that you must have some kind of privileged access or you are some kind of rocket scientist ?
Hopalong
Spiff pic and thanks for the link to the mural. Doesn't the University of Minnesota have a similar project in an old abandoned silver mine in Colorado trying to detect culture in Iowa?
Denger
@Hopalong: Yes! Matter of fact, the results were neutrino-sized. Cool coincidence, huh?
Digimon
Ominous!! Splendid image! They give tours? LOL @ Professor Hoppy!!
TwoPynts
YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE TOO?!? Mine started off as a little electrical experiment, but you know how these things go. Bing, bang, boom ... and one day you have a ive kiloton neutrino detector sitting in your garage, collection dust. ;^P Neat shot!
su_liam
@MarkHirst: He loves to dig?