Oxford Soudan2 page
Soudan2 is a US/UK experiment on the 27th level of the Soudan Iron Mine in Northern Minnesota. The Mine is run as a State Park by the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Minnesota. The Iron Calorimeter comprises 1000 tonnes of material held under constant surveillance, night and day, by sensitive electronics which is able to picture the interaction of any neutrino, or any other ‘intruder’, in the mass shielded from cosmic radiation deep underground.
The members of the Soudan2 Experiment are Oxford University and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, and the Argonne National Laboratory, Tufts University and the University of Minnesota in the USA. Detector installation began in 1986 and was completed in 1992.
Pictures of the Mine, detector and example of data.
Announcement of New Results
with a brief explanation of the physics of neutrinos
Other web sites:
The Soudan Mine site and the official Soudan Collaboration home page
Oxford members of the Collaboration
Academics Students Professional Professor Wade Allison Dr Nick West Dr John Cobb Roger Giles
Theses
Ursula Wielgosz and others
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