Speaker
Dr
Aldo Ianni
(Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc and INFN-LNGS)
Description
Underground laboratories are multidisciplinary research infrastructures with a rock overburden of the order of 1000 meter-water-equivalent.
A number of these infrastructures (15) are at work in the north hemisphere and three new ones are underway, two in the south hemisphere.
A description of the main characteristics of the existing facilities is given.
Due to the significant cosmic ray flux reduction a number of rare events processes can be searched for in underground laboratories, in particular neutrino interactions, neutrinoless double beta decay, and dark matter. Yet, these infrastructures offer a unique opportunity to search also for rare geophysics phenomena, such as weak oscillations from the Earth’s core, and in the next future for gravitational waves. A summary of the main physics case in underground laboratories is reported.
Underground laboratories can play a crucial role to drive new technologies. A few selected examples of technologies developed in the framework of underground laboratories are discussed.
Recently, the need of sharing work load and develop synergy between underground laboratories has been growing. A couple of examples are reported.
Primary author
Dr
Aldo Ianni
(Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc and INFN-LNGS)
