An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Survey of the Principal Underground Laboratories
Appendix D: Survey of the Principal Underground Laboratories
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In developing this material, the committee drew from the results of two recent comprehensive surveys of underground laboratories.1 EUROPE Boulby Underground Laboratory (U.K.) http://www.hep.shef.ac.uk/research/dm/boulby/boulby.php Boulby Underground Laboratory was developed as an underground laboratory in 1988 in an active potash mine on the northeast coast of England.
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• The surface building contains headquarters, administration, a library, a meeting room, offices, laboratories, storage and a mechanical workshop, safety structures, and management, for a total of approximately 1,500 m2. • The scientific program, developed with the advice of an international scientific committee, includes the following experiments: on dark matter searches, ANAIS (looking for an annual modulation with NaI crystals)
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is operated jointly by the Ins titut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (CNRS/IN2P3) and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Direction des Sciences de la Matière (CEA/DSM)
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An international scientific committee, appointed by INFN, advises the director. The rich experimental program includes the CERN to Gran Sasso neutrino beam experiments OPERA and ICARUS; dark matter search, with LIBRA, CRESST2, XENON, and WARP; neutrinoless double-beta decay, with COBRA, CUORE, and GERDA; solar neutrinos (and geoneutrinos)
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• The principal experiment on-site is the EMMA experiment, an array of cos mic ray detectors currently being installed 75 m underground and designed to study energetic cosmic rays. Small lab and office space is available in a surface building and a guesthouse is also available.
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Low-back ground chambers with volumes from 100 m3 to 300 m3 are used for R&D on dark matter and neutrinoless double-beta decay search as well as for gravitational wave search and for some geophysics measurements. ASIA India-Based Neutrino Observatory (India)
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China Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory/ China JinPing Deep Underground Laboratory Recently, the China Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (CDUSEL) , designed to be the world's deepest, and possibly its largest, under ground laboratory, was launched in China.2 The facility plans to take advantage of infrastructure being developed by the Ertan Hydropower Development Com pany (EHDC)
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http://www.snolab.ca/ also http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/ The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was excavated in the 1990s in an operating nickel mine. The original SNO cavity, a 200 m2 area, is now being freed for further experimental activity.
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using the superheated bubbles technique, which is run ning. A new instrument for neutrino research, SNO+, is to be hosted in the former SNO cavity and is based on liquid scintillator for low-energy solar neutrinos, geoneutrinos, and double-beta decay, by dissolving 150Nd in the liquid.
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Two special-purpose underground research laboratories have been developed in the United States. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
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