Fermi lab Looks Abroad for Help With Neutrino Experiment

摘要

U.S. particle physicists hope that a smaller price tag and foreign support will enable the Department of Energy (DOE) to fund a flagship experiment in the next decade. Five months ago, DOE officials balked at the then-$ 1.9 billion price tag for the proposed Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) and asked Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fer-milab) in Batavia, Illinois, if it could be built in cheaper stages (Science, 30 March, p. 1553).