Technicians add modules to the first block of the NOvA detector.
Photo by Ron Williams, NOvA lead foreman. Crews complete first
block of North America's most advanced neutrino experiment
University of Minnesota students built the detector modules
Media Note: Images are available at http://z.umn.edu/novaimages
Andre Salles, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
firstname.lastname@example.org, (630) 840-6733 Rhonda Zurn,
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering,
email@example.com, (612) 626-7959 Jared Sagoff, Argonne National
Laboratory, firstname.lastname@example.org, (630) 252-5549
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (09/06/2012) —Today, technicians in
Minnesota will begin to position the massive first block of a
detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced
neutrino experiment in North America. The NuMI Off-Axis Neutrino
Appearance experiment—NOvA for short—is a laboratory of the
School of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering. N