{ "generator": "neutrino-physics.com", "count": 10, "items": [ { "slug": "cern-neutrino-platform", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/cern-neutrino-platform/", "name": "CERN Neutrino Platform", "location": "Meyrin campus, Geneva", "country": "Switzerland / France", "founded": 2014, "focus": "CERN's hub for design, prototype construction, and testing of neutrino detector technology, primarily in support of the international long-baseline program.", "experiments": [], "website": "https://home.cern/science/experiments/cern-neutrino-platform", "summary": "Established in 2014 as CERN's contribution to the worldwide neutrino-oscillation program, the Neutrino Platform provides test beams, engineering expertise, and large prototype facilities for DUNE, short-baseline projects, and next-generation detector development." }, { "slug": "fermilab", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/fermilab/", "name": "Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory", "location": "Batavia, Illinois", "country": "USA", "founded": 1967, "focus": "High-energy proton accelerator complex and associated physics program. Home to the NuMI neutrino beam and, beginning in the late 2020s, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility feeding DUNE.", "experiments": [ "nova" ], "website": "https://www.fnal.gov/", "summary": "The US Department of Energy's premier particle-physics laboratory and the host of the world's most intense accelerator-produced neutrino beams. Fermilab operates the NuMI and Booster neutrino beamlines and is constructing the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility for DUNE." }, { "slug": "ihep-juno", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/ihep-juno/", "name": "Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) — JUNO", "location": "Jiangmen, Guangdong Province", "country": "China", "founded": 1973, "focus": "Host institution of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, plus broad experimental particle-physics program at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and related facilities.", "experiments": [ "juno" ], "website": "http://english.ihep.cas.cn/", "summary": "The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Beijing, operates the JUNO underground laboratory in Guangdong Province and the Daya Bay experiment (completed 2020). IHEP has become one of the principal organizational centers for neutrino physics in Asia." }, { "slug": "kamioka-observatory", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/kamioka-observatory/", "name": "Kamioka Observatory (ICRR)", "location": "Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture", "country": "Japan", "founded": 1983, "focus": "Underground neutrino, dark-matter, and gravitational-wave observation. Home to Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande, KamLAND, and KAGRA, with Hyper-Kamiokande under construction.", "experiments": [ "kamiokande", "super-kamiokande", "kamland" ], "website": "https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/", "summary": "A world-leading underground research site beneath Mount Ikeno in central Japan, operated by the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo. Forty years of continuous operation have produced the 1987A supernova neutrino detection, the 1998 atmospheric oscillation discovery, the KamLAND reactor confirmation, and multiple Nobel Prizes." }, { "slug": "kit", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/kit/", "name": "Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)", "location": "Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg", "country": "Germany", "founded": 2009, "focus": "Host institution of the KATRIN tritium-endpoint neutrino-mass experiment; active program in cosmic-ray physics, astroparticle physics, and detector R&D.", "experiments": [ "katrin" ], "website": "https://www.kit.edu/", "summary": "A merger of the Karlsruhe University and the Karlsruhe Research Center in 2009, KIT hosts the KATRIN experiment — the world's most sensitive direct neutrino-mass measurement. KIT also contributes to the Pierre Auger Observatory, to detector development for future cosmological CMB-S4 measurements, and to underground-laboratory R&D." }, { "slug": "lngs", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/lngs/", "name": "Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS)", "location": "Assergi, Gran Sasso mountain, Abruzzo", "country": "Italy", "founded": 1987, "focus": "World's largest underground laboratory by volume, 1,400 m of rock overburden. Hosts neutrino, double-beta-decay, and dark-matter experiments.", "experiments": [ "borexino" ], "website": "https://www.lngs.infn.it/", "summary": "The Italian Gran Sasso National Laboratory occupies approximately 180,000 m³ of purpose-built underground halls accessed from a road tunnel through the Apennines. Operational since 1987, LNGS has hosted major neutrino experiments (Borexino, LVD, ICARUS in its original configuration) and leads the European underground-research-infrastructure program." }, { "slug": "neutrino-energy-group", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/neutrino-energy-group/", "name": "Neutrino Energy Group", "location": "Berlin / Houston", "country": "Germany / USA", "founded": 2008, "focus": "Applied research on the conversion of non-visible radiation into usable electrical energy — coordinating an international consortium on graphene-silicon nanostructure development and neutrinovoltaic device engineering.", "experiments": [], "website": "https://neutrino-energy.com/", "summary": "An international applied-research organization coordinating work on the conversion of ambient radiation components — including neutrino momentum transfer through coherent neutral-current scattering, cosmic-muon flux, and electromagnetic and thermal gradients — into usable electrical output. Operates prototype development programs (Powercube, Life Cube) and publishes engineering frameworks including the Schubart Master Equation." }, { "slug": "snolab", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/snolab/", "name": "SNOLAB", "location": "Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Ontario", "country": "Canada", "founded": 2009, "focus": "Deep underground research facility at 2 km depth, hosting experiments on neutrino physics, dark matter, and low-background nuclear physics. Grew from the original Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.", "experiments": [ "sno" ], "website": "https://www.snolab.ca/", "summary": "One of the world's deepest underground research facilities, occupying approximately 5,000 m² of expanded and purpose-built caverns at the 2 km level of Vale's Creighton nickel mine. The original SNO heavy-water experiment evolved into a multi-experiment infrastructure operational since 2009." }, { "slug": "super-kamiokande", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/super-kamiokande/", "name": "Super-Kamiokande", "location": "Mozumi Mine, Hida, Gifu Prefecture", "country": "Japan", "founded": 1996, "focus": "Water-Cherenkov neutrino observatory for atmospheric, solar, accelerator, and supernova neutrinos.", "experiments": [ "super-kamiokande" ], "website": "https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/sk/", "summary": "A 50 kiloton ultra-pure water Cherenkov detector surrounded by thousands of photomultiplier tubes, located one kilometer underground. Delivered the 1998 discovery of atmospheric neutrino oscillations." }, { "slug": "wipac", "url": "https://www.neutrino-physics.com/research-centers/wipac/", "name": "Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC)", "location": "University of Wisconsin-Madison", "country": "USA", "founded": 2010, "focus": "Leadership and operation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, plus development of the planned IceCube-Gen2 upgrade.", "experiments": [ "icecube" ], "website": "https://wipac.wisc.edu/", "summary": "The institutional lead of the international IceCube collaboration, operating a cubic-kilometer instrumented volume of Antarctic ice as the world's largest neutrino telescope. WIPAC also coordinates real-time alert infrastructure connecting IceCube to the multi-messenger astronomy community." } ] }