Detector Photos
February 2024: Picture from the inside of the cryostat taken with an internal camera during the cooldown process with Argon gas. The view shows the cryostat membrane (right) and the TPC (left) with the high-voltage feedthrough and its connection to the central cathode in the center.
Photo Credit: SBND Collaboration.
December 2023: The installation of vacuum-jacketed transfer lines completes the cryogenics system of SBND.
Photo Credit: Roberto Acciarri (Fermilab).
May 2023: The first wall of the Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT), consisting of individual scintillating strip modules being installed on the downstream end of the cryostat.
Photo Credit: Roberto Acciarri (Fermilab).
April 2023: The assembly of detector and cryostat lid being lowered into the SBND membrane cryostat.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
April 2023: The assembly of detector and cryostat lid being rigged into the SBND membrane cryostat.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
December 2022: The SBND detector being pushed on rails into the SBND detector hall's loading deck at the end of a long day.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
December 2022: The SBND detector being unloaded from the truck using a mobile crane with spectators following the event from the hill in front of the SBND hall.
Photo Credit: Ohana Rodrigues (Syracuse University).
December 2022: The SBND detector arriving at the SBND hall located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB).
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
December 2022: The SBND detector being transported to its final location into the beamline across Fermilab's site and passing in front of the iconic Wilson Hall.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
September 2022: Completed field cage and Anode Assembly Plane (APA) with twelve Photon Detection System (PDS) modules located behind the wire planes. Each PDS module contains five PMTs and eight X-ARAPUCA devices for light detection.
Photo Credit: Monica Soares Nunes (Fermilab).
September 2022: One of 24 Photon Detection System (PDS) modules, housing five PMTs and eight X-ARAPUCA devices for light detection.
Photo Credit: Vishvas Pandey (Fermilab).
August 2022: Completed membrane cryostat installed in the steel support structure (painted red).
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
June 2022: One of two completed TPC volumes showing the central (shared) Cathode Plane Assembly (CPA) on the left, and Anode Plane Assembly (APA) on the right, enclosed by Field Cage modules.
Photo Credit: Monica Soares Nunes (Fermilab).
June 2022: Top and upper side field cage modules installed between anode (left) and cathode (right).
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
May 2022: Cold electronics boards installed on the sides of the Anode Plane Assemblies (APAs). Field cage panels and the Cathode Plane Assembly can be seen in the background on the right.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
May 2022: Installation of cold electronics boards on the top of the Anode Plane Assemblies (APAs). The background shows beams and hangers that will support the weight of the detector from the cryostat roof.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
October 2021: Installation of the first Anode Plane Assembly (APA) into the Assembly Transport Frame (atf).
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
August 2021: Detail of a Cathode Plane Assembly (CPA) window showing the TPB-coated reflective foil behind a conductive mesh. In the foreground runs an optical fiber for a system of calibration LEDs diffusing light from the cathode towards the photon detection system located behind the anode planes.
Photo Credit: Vishvas Pandey (Fermilab).
August 2021: The Cathode Plane Assembly (CPA) as the first component that was installed in the SBND Assembly Transport Frame (atf). The black panels cover sixteen light-sensitive windows of reflective foils.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
August 2021: Detailed view of one of SBND's sixteen field cage modules, showing the equidistant aluminum profiles and the interconnecting voltage divider chain.
Photo Credit: Ryan Postel (Fermilab).
December 2019: Outer cryostat steel structure. Reidar Hahn (Fermilab).
March 2019: Detailed view of an Anode Plane Assembly (APA) showing the three layers of wires crossing at a 60 degree angle and spaced 3mm apart. Reidar Hahn (Fermilab).
March 2019: One of four Anode Plane Assembly (APA) frames for the two anode planes of SBND being prepared for installation at Fermilab. Reidar Hahn (Fermilab).
2018: Detector hall for SBND, located 110 meter downstream of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) Target on Fermilab's Neutrino Campus.
