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MiniBooNE's tank before being filled with mineral oil
A close-up of the interior of Fermilab's MiniBooNE experiment's tank before being filled with ultra-pure mineral oil.
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The MinibooNE experiment, formally known as the Booster Neutrino Experiment, is an international collaboration of scientists involving 77 physicists from 17 institutions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom who conduct the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab. MiniBooNE physicists are supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Read more about the MiniBooNE experiment in the Fermilab news story MiniBooNE opens the box. (Date image taken: unknown; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Sept. 14, 2017)
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