Objective
Key questions in physics can be answered only by constructing a giant underground observatory to search for rare events and study terrestrial and astrophysical neutrinos. The Astroparticle Roadmap of ApPEC/ASPERA strongly supports this, recommending that: “a new large European infrastructure of 100'000-500'000 ton for proton decay and low-energy neutrinos be evaluated as a common design study together with the underground infrastructure and eventual detection of accelerator neutrino beams”. The latest CERN roadmap also states: “a range of very important non-accelerator experiments takes place at the overlap of particle and astroparticle physics exploring otherwise inaccessible phenomena; Council will seek with ApPEC a coordinated strategy in these areas of mutual interest.”
Reacting to this, uniting scientists across Europe with industrial support to produce a very strong collaboration, the LAGUNA FP7 design study has had a very positive effect. It enabled, via study of seven pre-selected locations (Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and UK), a detailed geo-technical assessment of the giant underground cavern needed, concluding finally that no geo-technical show-stoppers to cavern construction exist. Building on this, the present design study will address two challenges vital to making a final detector and site choice: (i) to determine the full cost of construction underground, commissioning and long-term operation of the infrastructure, and (ii) to determine the full impact of including long baseline neutrino physics with beams from CERN.
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Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1
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8092 Zuerich
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3012 Bern
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6648 MINUSIO
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1211 Meyrin
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40100 Jyvaskyla
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90014 Oulu
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75794 Paris
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80333 Muenchen
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20148 Hamburg
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31 342 Krakow
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05 400 Otwock
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50-370 Wroclaw
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22888 CANFRANC
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28049 Madrid
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28006 Madrid
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28033 MADRID
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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L69 7ZX Liverpool
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06126 PERUGIA
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077125 Magurele
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050663 Bucuresti
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