ProtoDUNE in pictures

Twenty photos, two detectors, one goal. To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in the universe, particle physicists design and build high-tech detectors. On top of the incredible science they make possible, these experiments are often staggeringly beautiful. Views of the process of putting them together look like they could come straight out of a sci-fi film or from an alien planet. This is true of the ProtoDUNE detectors, which often appear in photographs as giant gold-colored cubes. Thes...