NOvA

Scientists from the MINOS experiment at Fermilab announced today the world’s most precise measurement of a key property of neutrinos. The results confirm that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, have similar masses.

On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.

An international collaboration of physicists working on a neutrino experiment in southern China announced today they have made a difficult measurement scientists have been chasing for more than a decade. The results of the Daya Bay neutrino experiment open an important window into understanding the behavior of neutrinos, and now the race is on to determine the implications. Two American experiments, one proposed and one under construction, seem well positioned to take the next steps.

The Japan-based experiment T2K Tuesday gave scores of U.S. particle hunters a license to ready their detectors and take aim at the biggest question in the universe: How everything we see came to exist.

On Saturday, May 15, enthusiasts headed north to the annual Governor's Fishing Opener, the first day of the fishing season. On Friday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty stopped to visit Minnesota residents and visitors interested in a different type of catch: neutrinos.

The curvy MINOS surface building at Fermilab has a new neighbor. The new neutrino experiment in town recently moved in right next door.

In this video, residents of northern Minnesota and the construction workers building the NOvA neutrino detector facility discuss the benefits project construction has brought their communities. The facility will house a multi-ton particle detector that will investigate the role of subatomic particles called neutrinos in the origin of the universe.

Construction of the NOvA detector facility, funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has created business opportunities for members of the local community in northern Minnesota. Recently it also created an opportunity to fuel renewable energy in the state. This month a local logging company cleared trees from about 20 acres of the site to make way for the facilities and 3 ½ miles of widened road. Rather than wasting that wood, the company will sell it as a source of renewable energy to two Minnesota power plants.

"Forty score and seven kilometers south, our accelerators brought forth on this continent a neutrino beam, conceived of protons and dedicated to testing the proposition that all neutrinos are created equal,"said Congressman Bill Foster as he began a speech at the groundbreaking of the NOvA neutrino experiment.