Eos Neutrino Detector Tests Begin

Eos Neutrino Detector Tests Begin

March 22, 2024

Photo Credit to Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab.

Photomultiplier tubes, used to detect faint sources of light, mounted inside the steel tank of the Eos detector.
Photo Credit to Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab. Photomultiplier tubes, used to detect faint sources of light, mounted inside the steel tank of the Eos detector.

Tests have now begun on Eos, a new type of neutrino detector at UC Berkeley, for nonproliferation and physics research. The effort is led by physics faculty Gabriel Orebi Gann and takes place in the former nuclear reactor site operated by UCBNE.

Read more about the design of Eos and its research aims in Berkeley News.