NSF, University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete Construction of the World's Largest Neutrino Observatory

NSF, University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete Construction of the World's Largest Neutrino Observatory
Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:00:00 -0600

Culminating a decade of planning, innovation and testing, construction of the world's largest neutrino observatory, installed in the ice of the Antarctic plateau at the geographic South Pole, was successfully completed December 18, 2010, New Zealand time.

The last of 86 holes had been drilled and a total of 5,160 optical sensors are now installed to form the main detector--a cubic kilometer of instrumented ice--of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the National Science ...

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