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Executive Summary
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... They have spurred proposals for new initiatives, including both a project to develop a large neutrino detector under the ice at the South Pole (IceCube) and a proposal to develop a new deep underground laboratory within the United States that can house a broad range of important future experiments.
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... Since the committee finds that the scientific goals of an underground laboratory go well beyond neutrino experiments, it has assessed the scientific potential for such a facility in a broader context. In addition to providing a scientific assessment of IceCube and of a deep underground laboratory, the committee addresses their overlaps and complementarity, as well as how each initiative fits into international plans.
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... The committee finds that there is evidence that the universe contains a variety of sources of very high energy neutrinos and that their detection would reveal much about how nature accelerates particles, as well as the inner workings of supermassive black holes and the mysterious gamma-ray bursts. The technology exists to build the enormous detectors necessary to detect neutrinos from across the universe, and the infrastructure exists at the South Pole.
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... With these discoveries energizing the rapidly growing field of underground physics, and recognizing both the large U.S. commitments being made to underground facilities abroad and the future science opportunities for such facilities, it is now very timely to consider the building of a new deep underground facility in the United States.
From page 5...
... Recent discoveries about neutrinos, new ideas and technologies, and the scientific leadership that exists in the United States make the time ripe to build such a uniquefacility. It will require considerable strategic and technical guidance to construct a deep underground laboratory expeditiously and in synergy with an experimental research program.
From page 6...
... Separately, the wealth of experimental opportunities available in an underground laboratory ensures that an additional underground laboratory would contribute substantially to international science efforts. While it is true that each particular experiment proposed for the underground lab could be individually sited elsewhere, there are likely to be scientific leadership, economic, and administrative advantages to a centralized national underground facility.


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