Dr
Fabrice Piquemal
(CNRS)
12/09/2013, 14:20
Underground Laboratories/Large Detectors (incl. Nucleon Decay)
Oral
The Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) is located in the Fréjus roadway tunnel between France and Italy and operated since 1981. It is protected by 1700 m of rock (4800 meter water equivalent) leading to a residual muon flux of 4 muons/m2/day. The laboratory has a surface of 400 m2 and a volume of 3500 m3. LSM is operated in France by CNRS and CEA and has an agreement of International...
David Sinclair
(Carleton University)
12/09/2013, 14:40
Underground Laboratories/Large Detectors (incl. Nucleon Decay)
Oral
Several of the major questions studied in contemporary astro-particle and sub-atomic physics are performed through weak interaction studies or rare event searches. These require the ultra-quiet environment afforded by deep underground facilities, where the cosmic radiation induced backgrounds in the detection systems are reduced to a manageable level, and local ambient radioactivity reduced by...
Dr
Claudio Dib
(U. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile)
12/09/2013, 15:00
Underground Laboratories/Large Detectors (incl. Nucleon Decay)
Oral
ANDES (Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site) is an underground laboratory, proposed to be built inside the Agua Negra road tunnel that will connect Chile (IV Region) with Argentina (San Juan Province) under the Andes Mountains. The Lab will be 1750 meters under the rock, becoming the 3rd deepest underground lab in the world, and the first in the Southern Hemisphere. ANDES will be an international...
Prof.
Shaun Wyngaardt
(Stellenbosch University)
12/09/2013, 15:20
Underground Laboratories/Large Detectors (incl. Nucleon Decay)
Oral
Over the past two years there has been discussion among South African physicists about the
possibility of establishing a deep underground physics laboratory to study, amongst others,
double beta decay, geoneutrinos, reactor neutrinos and dark matter. As a step towards a full
proposal for such a laboratory a number of smaller programmes are currently being performed to investigate...
Joseph S.Y. Wang
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12/09/2013, 15:40
Underground Laboratories/Large Detectors (incl. Nucleon Decay)
Oral
The expansion of the China JinPing Laboratory (CJPL) is planned along a main branch of a bypass tunnel in the JinPing tunnel complex during 2013 -2015. This second phase of CJPL will have laboratory space increased to approximately 80,000m3, from existing main hall volume of nearly 2,000m3. One configuration designed has eight additional hall spaces planned, with each over 60 m long, width in...
