Buried in a Gold Mine, a Particle Accelerator Searches for Stellar Secrets
Buried in a Gold Mine, a Particle Accelerator Searches for Stellar Secrets
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
August 17, 20176m 58s
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Show Notes
In August 2015, scientists from the University of Notre Dame went west, the disassembled pieces of a particle accelerator secured in the back of their U-haul. Over 1,000 miles later and nearly a mile down, they started installing the machine in a new home: deep within an old mine in the town of Lead, South Dakota. Miners first excavated the Homestake gold mine in the 1880s.
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