Carleton faculty working on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory (SNOLAB) have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
The SNOLAB is a group of physicists and scientists who work together to study solar neutrinos and their interactions with water. Many professors and graduate students at Carleton have contributed to the SNOLAB.
David Sinclair, the associate director of SNOLAB and a physicist at Carleton, said the prize—valued at $3 million—is a recognition of the important nature of the research happening at the lab.
“The importance of the prize comes from the fact that the discoveries of SNO and the other recipients have been judging the most significant breakthrough in fundamental physics by a knowledgeable team,” Sinclair said.
SNOLAB shares the prize along with four other international experiments and will split the prize money with the other winners.
