The experiment will begin collecting data from a neutrino beam in October. A school bus-sized detector packed with 170 tons of liquid argon has seen its first particle footprints. On August 6, MicroBooNE, a liquid-argon time projection chamber, or LArTPC, recorded images of the tracks of cosmic muons, particles that shower down on Earth when cosmic rays collide with nuclei in our atmosphere. "This is the first detector of this size and scale we've ever launched in the US for use in a neutrino be...
The experiment will begin collecting data from a neutrino beam in October. A school bus-sized detector packed with 170 tons of liquid argon has seen its first particle footprints. On August 6, MicroBooNE, a liquid-argon time projection chamber, or LArTPC, recorded images of the tracks of cosmic muons, particles that shower down on Earth when cosmic rays collide with nuclei in our atmosphere. "This is the first detector of this size and scale we've ever launched in the US for use in a neutrino be...
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