NOvA Near-Detector Surface Building Construction Time Lapse

This time-lapse video shows the construction of the NOvA Near-Detector Surface Building, using photos taken every 10 minutes and photos taken every 5 minutes.

The NOvA neutrino experiment will place two detectors in the path of a beam of neutrinos generated at Fermilab. The near detector will gather data on-site at Fermilab, and the far detector will study the beam in Ash River, Minn., at a laboratory of the University of Minnesotas School of Physics and Astronomy.

Ward Commercial Construction Inc. of East Dundee, Ill., began constructing the NOvA Near-Detector Surface Building in December 2009. The collaboration plans to have the new detector ready to take data in mid-July. The near detector will take data for more than a year on the surface before moving underground.

Learn more about NOvA: http://www-nova.fnal.gov/
Learn more about Recovery Act funding for NOvA: http://www.fnal.gov/recovery/

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• Fermilab
• NOvA
• neutrino
• near detector
• Ward Commercial Construction