Video: U of M breaks ground on a massive physics experiment in northern Minnesota

Contacts: Justin Ware, University News Service, ware@umn.edu, (612) 626-1720

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (05/12/2009) — Construction has started on the University of Minnesota's NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) detector facility, a laboratory of the School of Physics and Astronomy. The lab will house a 15,000-ton particle detector near the Ash River - about 40 miles southeast of International Falls - that will investigate the role of subatomic particles called neutrinos in the origin of the universe.

Watch a video from the groundbreaking event on May 1.