As part of Fermilab’s efforts to attract major international participation in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), laboratory officials are hoping to entice more Latin American physicists, their institutions, and their governments to join the megaproject.

Due for completion in 2026, DUNE was conceived as a global collaboration right from the start. Hosted by Fermilab, the project also consists of a large underground neutrino detector to be located nearly 1300 km away in South Dakota’s Sanford Underground Research Facility (see Physics Today, April 2015, page 22).

The $1.5 billion that the US has committed to DUNE is expected to cover 60–70% of the total project cost. CERN has committed $100 million in kind to DUNE so far, and that amount is expected to grow, says Tim Meyer, Fermilab’s chief operating officer. Although India, Italy, Switzerland, and the UK are expected to be the other major DUNE in-kind contributors,...

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