Groundbreaking for the international LBNF / DUNE project

Scientists and dignitaries broke ground for an international mega-science project in South Dakota on July 21, 2017. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility will host the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, a project involving about 1,000 scientists from more than 160 institutions in 30 countries. Representatives from U.S. Congress, the Executive Office of the President, the state of South Dakota and global partners in the project participated in the groundbreaking. LBNF will send an intense neutrino beam through 1,300 kilometers of rock from the Department of Energy’s Fermilab to the DUNE particle detectors to be located in 1.5-kilometer-deep caverns at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. More info at http://dunescience.org