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Interesting. I was just talking with a friend about that this weekend. He's working on another experiment, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) which
by losvedir 8y ago
Interesting. I was just talking with a friend about that this weekend. He's working on another experiment, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) which is investigating this question, among others. They're shooting a neutrino beam from Fermi Lab in Chicago to a detector deep underground in South Dakota, allowing them to measure several characteristic parameters of these neutrinos. One of them, delta_cp, will give insight into the question of the matter-antimatter imbalance[0].
As just a lowly software developer, it's quite amazing to me to see what cutting edge physicists are up to. The engineering scale of these experiments is mind boggling.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation#CP_violation_and_the_matter%E2%80%93antimatter_imbalance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation#CP_violation_and_...
- nkrisc 8y agoSince you mentioned it I'll plug it (simply because I think it's cool): FermiLab has a lot of public events they host as well as various interesting lectures http://news.fnal.gov/newsroom/public-events/ http://news.fnal.gov/newsroom/public-events/ It's in Batavia, about an hour's drive outside Chicago.
- breatheoften 8y agoAre there any good podcasts offering behind the scenes perspectives on experiments at this level?