Lancaster involved in £65m science partnership agreement with US
The UK is investing £65million in a flagship global science project that could change our understanding of the universe. UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson signed the agreement with the US Energy Department to invest the sum in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the United States. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota will house the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). DUNE will study the properties of mysterious particles called neutrinos, which could help explain more about how the universe works and why matter exists at all. It will be built and operated by a group of around 1,000 scientists and engineers from 31 countries. These include Dr Jarek Nowak, Dr Andy Blake and Professor Peter Ratoff from Lancaster University as well as UK scientists from the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial, Liverpool, UCL, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, Sussex and Warwick. This latest investment is part of a long history of UK research collaboration with the US, and is the first major project of the wider UK-US Science and Technology agreement.
